The DROPPS program to study the polar summer mesosphere

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1037-1046

  Goldberg, R A ^a   Pfaff, R F ^a   Holzworth, R H ^b   Schmidlin, F J ^a   Voss, H D ^c   Tuzzolino, A J ^d   Croskey, C L ^e   Mitchell, J D ^e   Friedrich, M ^f   Murtaugh, D ^g   Witt, G ^g   Gumbel, J ^g   Von Zahn, U ^h   Singer, W ^h   Hoppe, U P ⁱ  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Taylor U   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

OPTICAL STRUCTURE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; NOCTILUCENT CLOUD; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO;

EID: 6444244448     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(01)80034-X     Document Type: Article

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