On the quality of MIPAS kinetic temperature in the middle atmosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 6009-6039

  Garcia Comas M ^a,b   Funke, B ^a   Lopez Puertas M ^a   Bermejo PantaleOn, D ^a   Glatthor, N ^c   Von Clarmann, T ^c   Stiller, G ^c   Grabowski, U ^c   Boone, C D ^d   French, W J R ^e   Leblanc, T ^f   Lopez Gonzalez, M J ^a   Schwartz, M J ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; THERMODYNAMICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84864191236     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-6009-2012     Document Type: Article

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