Kinetic temperature and carbon dioxide from broadband infrared limb emission measurements taken from the TIMED/SABER instrument

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-27

  Mertens, Christopher J ^a   Russell III, James M ^b   Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   She, Chiao Yao ^c   Schmidlin, Francis J ^d   Goldberg, Richard A ^e   López Puertas, Manuel ^f   Wintersteiner, Peter P ^g   Picard, Richard H ^h   Winick, Jeremy R ^h   Xu, Xiaojing ⁱ  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^g ARCON CORPORATION   (United States)

^h AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ); Infrared remote sensing; Non LTE; SABER; Temperature

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; ROCKETS; TEMPERATURE;

INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; KINETIC TEMPERATURES; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; NON-LTE; SABER; SOUNDING OF THE ATMOSPHERE USING BROADBAND EMISSION RADIOMETRY; THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE; TWO-LEVEL STRUCTURES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 57649143094     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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