Global column density retrievals of mesospheric and thermospheric Mg I and Mg II from SCIAMACHY limb and nadir radiance data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Scharringhausen, Marco ^a   Aikin, Arthur C ^b   Burrows, John P ^c   Sinnhuber, Miriam ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; MAGNESIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEORITES; SPECTROMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; IONIZATION; MAGNESIUM; MESOSPHERE; NADIR; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETER; THERMOSPHERE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MESOPAUSE; SCIAMACHY;

GEOMAGNETISM; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROMETERS;

AURORAL OVAL; COLUMN DENSITY; DATA SETS; GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL SCALE; IONIZED SPECIES; MODEL CALCULATIONS; NADIR MEASUREMENTS; PARTIAL COLUMNS; PARTICLE IMPACT; RADIANCE DATA; RESONANT RADIATION; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CHARTOGRAPHY; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME RANGE; TOTAL CONTENT;

SEPARATION;

EID: 50849116132     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009043     Document Type: Article

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