Strong longitudinal variations in the OH nightglow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Jiyao ^a   Smith, A K ^b   Jiang, Guoying ^a   Gao, Hong ^a   Wei, Yuan ^a   Mlynczak, M G ^c   Russell, J M ^d  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

AIRGLOW EMISSIONS; DIURNAL TIDES; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; LONG TERM; LONGITUDINAL VARIATIONS; NIGHTGLOW; NONMIGRATING TIDES; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; STRIKING PATTERNS; WAVE NUMBERS;

TIDES;

AIRGLOW; ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; EMISSION INVENTORY; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NIGHTGLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 78149247075     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043972     Document Type: Article

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