Long-term temperature trends in the ionosphere above Millstone Hill

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Holt, J M ^a   Zhang, S R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; GREENHOUSE GASES; IONOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERIC ION TEMPERATURE; NEUTRAL DENSITY; NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE TREND; THERMAL COUPLING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GREENHOUSE GAS; IONOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

MILLSTONE HILL; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 43549084811     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031148     Document Type: Article

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