Mesopause structure from Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED/Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Xu, Jiyao ^a   Liu, H L ^a,b   Yuan, W ^a   Smith, A K ^b   Roble, R G ^b   Mertens, C J ^c   Russell, III ^d   Mlynczak, M G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAVITY WAVES; SOLAR RADIATION;

ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BROADBAND DATA; GRAVITY WAVE; IONOSPHERE; MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOMETER; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 34347336658     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007711     Document Type: Article

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