Total hydrogen budget of the equatorial upper stratosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wrotny, Jonathan E ^a,b   Nedoluha, Gerald E ^a   Boone, Chris ^c   Stiller, Gabriele P ^d   McCormack, John P ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; MIXING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TIME SERIES; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT; AVERAGE PROFILES; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; LONG TERM STABILITY; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER FOR PASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE MODEL; MIXING RATIOS; MOLECULAR HYDROGEN; NET LOSS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; METHANE; STRATOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77649126523     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012135     Document Type: Article

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