SABER temperature observations in the summer polar mesosphere and lower thermosphere: Importance of accounting for the CO2 ν2 quanta V-V exchange

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Kutepov, Alexander A ^a,b,c   Feofilov, Artem G ^a   Marshall, Benjamin T ^d   Gordley, Larry L ^d   Pesnell, W Dean ^a   Goldberg, Richard A ^a   Russell III, James M ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GATS INC   (United States)

^e HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

MESOSPHERE; QUANTA; THERMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; MESOPAUSE; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VIBRATION;

EID: 34248534102     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026591     Document Type: Article

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