Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-29-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-29-2014
Research article
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07 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 07 Jan 2014

Retrieval algorithm for densities of mesospheric and lower thermospheric metal atom and ion species from satellite-borne limb emission signals

M. Langowski, M. Sinnhuber, A. C. Aikin, C. von Savigny, and J. P. Burrows

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