Antarctic atmospheric temperature trend patterns from satellite observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Johanson, Celeste M ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; MICROWAVES; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WINTER;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 38849128738     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029108     Document Type: Article

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