Climatology of the subvisual cirrus clouds as seen by OSIRIS on Odin

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 807-812

  Bourassa, A E ^a   Degenstein, D A ^a   Llewellyn, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cirrus; OSIRIS; Subvisual; UTLS

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; LIGHT SCATTERING; SAMPLING; SPACECRAFT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CIRRUS; OSIRIS; SUBVISUAL; UTLS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 27744498219     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.05.045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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