Sounding the upper mesosphere using broadband solar occultation: The SOFIE experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6297, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gordley, Larry L ^a   Hervig, Mark E ^a   Russell, James M ^b   Fish, Chad ^c   Paxton, Gregory J ^a   Burton, John C ^a   McHugh, Martin J ^a  

^a GATS INC   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIM; Mesosphere; PMC; SOFIE; Solar occultation

Indexed keywords

AERONOMY OF ICE IN THE MESOSPHERE (AIM); MESOSPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS (PMC); SOLAR OCCULTATION; SOLAR OCCULTATION FOR ICE EXPERIMENT (SOFIE);

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CLOUDS; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 33750551733     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.682050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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