Aerosols and clouds in the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere region detected by GOMOS and ACE: Intercomparison and analysis of the years 2004 and 2005

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1730-1742

  Dodion, J ^a   Fussen, D ^a   Vanhellemont, F ^a   Bingen, C ^a   Mateshvili, N ^a   Gilbert, K ^b   Skelton, R ^b   Turnbull, D ^b   McLeod, S D ^b   Boone, C D ^b   Walker, K A ^b   Bernath, P F ^b  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Cirrus clouds; PSCs; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; ORBITS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE; CIRRUS CLOUDS; FORMATION MECHANISM; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; PSCS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CLOUDS;

EID: 51649092145     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.09.027     Document Type: Article

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