Rayleigh lidar measurement of an unusual stratospheric temperature profile following the major stratospheric warming of 2002 at a low southern latitude station

Optica Pura y Aplicada

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-139

  Batista, P P ^a   Clemesha, B R ^a   Simonich, D M ^a   Fechine, J ^a   Mlynczak, M G ^b   Russell, J M ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar; Rayleigh; Stratospheric inversion layer; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549113658     PISSN: 00303917     EISSN: 21718814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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