Polar middle atmosphere temperature climatology from Rayleigh lidar measurements at ALOMAR (69° N)

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1681-1698

  Schch, A ^a,b   Baumgarten, G ^a   Fiedler, J ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; DIURNAL VARIATION; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEASONAL VARIATION; WARMING;

EID: 45749137624     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-1681-2008     Document Type: Article

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