Bridging the Atmospheric Divide
- 21 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 293 (5538), 2218-2219
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1064467
Abstract
The mesosphere and lower thermosphere have long suffered from their inaccessibility to research balloons and satellites alike. As a result, basic knowledge about this central region of the atmosphere is limited. In his Perspective, Jarvis describes how ground-based, satellite, rocket, and modeling efforts are shedding new light on this region, which is important for detecting climate change, for understanding vertical transport processes in the atmosphere, and for aerospace technology.Keywords
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