Latitudinal dependence of noctilucent cloud growth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Karlsson, Bodil ^a   Rapp, M ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION;

LATITUDINAL VARIATION; MICROPHYSICAL MODELING; NOCTILUCENT CLOUD GROWTH;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD SEEDING; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33746411010     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025805     Document Type: Article

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