Stratospheric abundances of water and methane based on ACE-FTS measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Nassar, Ray ^a   Bernath, Peter F ^a   Boone, Chris D ^a   Manney, Gloria L ^b,c   McLeod, Sean D ^a   Rinsland, Curtis P ^d   Skelton, Randall ^a   Walker, Kaley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER;

ACE-FTS; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY (ATMOS); VOLUME MIXING RATIO;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANE; STRATOSPHERE; WATER;

EID: 25844521062     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022383     Document Type: Article

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