Articles | Volume 10, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-9225-2010
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-9225-2010
01 Oct 2010
 | 01 Oct 2010

A global climatology of the mesospheric sodium layer from GOMOS data during the 2002–2008 period

D. Fussen, F. Vanhellemont, C. Tétard, N. Mateshvili, E. Dekemper, N. Loodts, C. Bingen, E. Kyrölä, J. Tamminen, V. Sofieva, A. Hauchecorne, F. Dalaudier, J.-L. Bertaux, G. Barrot, L. Blanot, O. Fanton d'Andon, T. Fehr, L. Saavedra, T. Yuan, and C.-Y. She

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