First results from the Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER): Diurnal variation of mesospheric hydroxyl

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Englert, Christoph R ^a   Stevens, Michael H ^a   Siskind, David E ^a   Harlander, John M ^b   Roesler, Fred L ^c   Pickett, Herbert M ^d   von Savigny, Christian ^e   Kochenash, Andrew J ^f  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f Computational Physics Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; HETERODYNING; REMOTE SENSING;

DIURNAL VARIATIONS; LOCAL TIMES; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDERS; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; PHOTOCHEMICAL MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DIURNAL VARIATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IMAGING METHOD; MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 57749196354     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035420     Document Type: Article

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