Seasonal and latitudinal variation of noctilucent cloud altitudes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Lubken F J ^a   Baumgarten, G ^a   Fiedler, J ^a   Gerding, M ^a   Hoffner J ^a   Berger, U ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPHYSICS; METEOROLOGY;

GEOPHYSICAL VARIABILITY; NOCTILUCENT CLOUD ALTITUDES; POLAR LATITUDES;

CLOUDS;

ALTITUDE; ISOTHERM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIDAR; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; KUHLUNGSBORN; MECKLENBURG-WEST POMERANIA; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 44349122291     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032281     Document Type: Article

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