Daytime ozone and temperature variations in the mesosphere: A comparison between SABER observations and HAMMONIA model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 8331-8339

  Dikty, S ^a   Schmidt, H ^b   Weber, M ^a   Von Savigny, C ^a   Mlynczak, M G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSPHERE; OZONE; RADIOMETER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACE GAS;

EID: 77956415226     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-8331-2010     Document Type: Article

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