Mars Climate Sounder limb profile retrieval of atmospheric temperature, pressure, and dust and water ice opacity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Kleinböhl, Armin ^a   Schofield, John T ^a   Kass, David M ^a   Abdou, Wedad A ^a   Backus, Charles R ^a   Sen, Bhaswar ^a   Shirley, James H ^a   Lawson, W Gregory ^b   Richardson, Mark I ^b   Taylor, Fredric W ^c   Teanby, Nicholas A ^c   McCleese, Daniel J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DUST; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANETARY SATELLITE; SPACE TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 72149084919     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003358     Document Type: Article

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