The noctilucent cloud (NLC) display during the ECOMA/MASS sounding rocket flights on 3 August 2007: Morphology on global to local scales

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 953-965

  Baumgarten, G ^a   Fiedler, J ^a   Fricke, K H ^b   Gerding, M ^a   Hervig, M ^c   Hoffmann, P ^a   Muller N ^a   Pautet, P D ^d   Rapp, M ^a   Robert, C ^e   Rusch, D ^f   Von Savigny, C ^e   Singer, W ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c GATS INC   (United States)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (cloud physics and chemistry middle atmosphere composition and chemistry; instruments and techniques); Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (middle atmosphere dynamics)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GRAVITY WAVE; LATITUDE; LIDAR; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 62149120559     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-953-2009     Document Type: Article

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