Validation of stratospheric water vapour measurements from the airborne microwave radiometer AMSOS

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3169-3183

  Muller S C ^a   Kampfer N ^a   Feist, D G ^b   Haefele, A ^a   Milz, M ^c,h   Sitnikov, N ^d   Schiller, C ^e   Kiemle, C ^f   Urban, J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^h LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; STRATOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 45849101201     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-3169-2008     Document Type: Article

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