Profiles of temperature responses to the 22 july 2009 total solar eclipse from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC constellation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Kuo Ying ^a   Liu, Chao Han ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC; LEO SATELLITE; SOLAR ECLIPSE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; THERMAL CONTRACTION; THERMALLY DRIVEN;

ATMOSPHERICS; COSMOLOGY; HEATING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ECLIPSE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 75749125714     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040968     Document Type: Article

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