A 14-year monthly climatology and trend in the 35-65 km altitude range from Rayleigh Lidar temperature measurements at a low latitude station

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1456-1462

  Batista, Paulo P ^a   Clemesha, Barclay R ^a   Simonich, Dale M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lidar; Rayleigh lidar; Temperature climatology; Temperature trend

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE RANGE; LIDAR; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM LAYER; PEAK-TO-PEAK-; RAYLEIGH LIDAR; RAYLEIGH SIGNALS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TEMPERATURE TREND; THERMAL AMPLITUDE;

CLIMATOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 68249106624     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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