Daytime SABER/TIMED observations of water vapor in the mesosphere: Retrieval approach and first results

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8139-8158

  Feofilov, A G ^a,b   Kutepov, A A ^a,b   Pesnell, W D ^b   Goldberg, R A ^b   Marshall, B T ^c   Gordley, L L ^c   Garcia Comas M ^d   Lopez Puertas M ^d   Manuilova, R O ^e   Yankovsky, V A ^e   Petelina, S V ^f   Russell, J M ^g  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c GATS INC   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^e ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACE 1; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INFRARED IMAGERY; MESOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGEN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 70450234977     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-8139-2009     Document Type: Article

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