Venus upper atmosphere winds from ground-based heterodyne spectroscopy of CO2 at 10 μ m wavelength

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1399-1406

  Sornig, M ^a   Livengood, T ^b,c   Sonnabend, G ^a   Kroetz, P ^a   Stupar, D ^a   Kostiuk, T ^b   Schieder, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Heterodyne; Mid infrared; Non LTE; Planetary atmospheres; Venus

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HETERODYNING; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TELESCOPES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DYNAMICS; HETERODYNE; MID-INFRARED; NON-LTE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES; VENUS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 51249093040     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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