Technical note: VUV photodesorption rates from water ice in the 120-150K temperature range-significance for Noctilucent Clouds

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1729-1734

  Kulikov, M Yu ^a   Feigin, A M ^a   Ignatov, S K ^b   Sennikov, P G ^a,c   Bluszcz, Th ^d   Schrems, O ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF HIGH PURITY SUBSTANCES   (Russian Federation)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DESORPTION; MESOSPHERE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOLYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 79952076417     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-1729-2011     Document Type: Article

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