Densities and temperatures in the Venus mesosphere and lower thermosphere retrieved from SOIR on board Venus Express: Retrieval technique

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Mahieux, A ^a   Vandaele, A C ^a   Neefs, E ^a   Robert, S ^a   Wilquet, V ^a   Drummond, R ^a   Federova, A ^b   Bertaux, J L ^c  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^c SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA SET; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOSPHERE; VENUS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 78650946845     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003589     Document Type: Article

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