The sensitivity of mesospheric ice layers to atmospheric background temperatures and water vapor

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 794-801

  Lübken, Franz Josef ^a   Rapp, Markus ^a   Strelnikova, Irina ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

High latitudes; Ice clouds; Ice layers; Noctilucent clouds; Polar mesosphere summer echoes; Summer mesopause; Summer polar mesosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

ICE CLOUDS; MESOSPHERIC ICE LAYERS; NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES (PMSE); SUMMER POLAR MESOSPHERE;

ICE;

EID: 34548238800     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.014     Document Type: Article

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