A Latitudinal survey of Mesospheric and Upper Stratospheric Water Vapor

CROSKEY C.L.; MARTONE, J.; OLIVERO, J.; PULIAFITO, E.

Advance in Space Research (COSPAR )

Elsevier Pergamon

Año: 1994 vol. 14 p. 181 - 194

As part of the LADIMAS Campaign, measurements of mesospheric and upper stratospheric water vapor concentration made over a latitudinal range from 53N to 63S. The 22-GHz emission line of water vapor was observed by a new, portable, cryogenically cooled microwave radiometer that was carried on board the German research vessel Polarstern as it sailed from Bremerhaven, Germany to the Antartic during November and December, 1991. Water vapor profiles were obtained at approximately 5º latitude intervals for and altitude of 40 to 80 km