The cloud imaging and particle size experiment on the aeronomy of ice in the mesosphere mission: Cloud morphology for the northern 2007 season

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 356-364

  Rusch, D W ^a   Thomas, G E ^a   McClintock, W ^a   Merkel, A W ^a   Bailey, S M ^b   Russell III, J M ^c   Randall, C E ^a   Jeppesen, C ^a   Callan, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Gravity waves; Mesosphere; Polar mesospheric clouds

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DYNAMICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; ORBITS; PARTICLE SIZE; WAVES;

ANGULAR FIELDS; BAND PASS; CALIFORNIA; CAMERA VIEWS; CIRCULAR ARCS; CLOUD IMAGING; CLOUD MORPHOLOGIES; CLOUD STRUCTURES; ICE PARTICLES; ICE-FREE REGIONS; LARGE REGIONS; MESOSPHERE; NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS; POINT SOURCES; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS; POLAR REGIONS; SATELLITE MISSIONS; SPATIAL COVERAGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

ICE;

EID: 62149087463     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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