Monthly mean vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and water vapour volume mixing ratio in the polar stratosphere and low mesosphere from a multi-year set of MIPAS-ENVISAT limb-scanning measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2237-2271

  Tomasi, Claudio ^a   Petkov, Boyan ^a,b   Maria Dinelli, Bianca ^a   Castelli, Elisa ^a   Arnone, Enrico ^a   Papandrea, Enzo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multi year MIPAS limb scanning measurements; Polar stratospheric moisture parameters; Polar stratospheric water vapour content; Pressure and temperature in the polar stratosphere

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC LATITUDE; DATA SETS; ENVISAT; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; LIMB-SCANNING; MIPAS/ENVISAT; MULTI-YEAR MIPAS LIMB-SCANNING MEASUREMENTS; MULTITARGET; POLAR ATMOSPHERE; POLAR LATITUDE; POLAR STRATOSPHERE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC MOISTURE PARAMETERS; PRESENT VALUE; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE PROFILES; PRESSURE PROFILES; RADIOSOUNDING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; THREE PARAMETERS; TOMOGRAPHIC; VERTICAL PROFILE; VOLUME MIXING RATIOS; WATER VAPOUR;

ATMOSPHERICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; OZONE; SCANNING; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; WATER CONTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80054024495     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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