Overview and early results of the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Kikuchi, Ken Ichi ^a   Nishibori, Toshiyuki ^a   Ochiai, Satoshi ^b   Ozeki, Hiroyuki ^c   Irimajiri, Yoshihisa ^b   Kasai, Yasuko ^b   Koike, Makoto ^d   Manabe, Takeshi ^e   Mizukoshi, Kazuo ^a   Murayama, Yasuhiro ^b   Nagahama, Tomoo ^f   Sano, Takuki ^g   Sato, Ryota ^a   Seta, Masumichi ^h   Takahashi, Chikako ^g,i   Takayanagi, Masahiro ^a   Masuko, Harunobu ^b   Inatani, Junji ^j   Suzuki, Makoto ^g   Shiotani, Masato ^k  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

ⁱ FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^j NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^k KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; DATA HANDLING; FREQUENCY BANDS; ISOTOPES; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE STATIONS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; HIGH POTENTIAL; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; JAPANESE EXPERIMENT MODULES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; MINOR CONSTITUENTS; SUBMILLIMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING MIXERS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; OZONE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 78649628053     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014379     Document Type: Article

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