Articles | Volume 9, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-9-8139-2009
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-9-8139-2009
02 Nov 2009
 | 02 Nov 2009

Daytime SABER/TIMED observations of water vapor in the mesosphere: retrieval approach and first results

A. G. Feofilov, A. A. Kutepov, W. D. Pesnell, R. A. Goldberg, B. T. Marshall, L. L. Gordley, M. García-Comas, M. López-Puertas, R. O. Manuilova, V. A. Yankovsky, S. V. Petelina, and J. M. Russell III

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