Deduction of temperature profile from MST radar observations of vertical wind

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 285-288

  Revathy, K ^a   Prabhakaran Nair, S R ^a   Krisha Murthy, B V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ALTITUDE PROFILES; BRUNT VAISALA FREQUENCY; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MST RADARS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; VERTICAL WIND;

RADAR;

BACKSCATTER ANALYSIS METHOD; BRUNT-VAISALA FREQUENCY; MST RADAR; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VERTICAL WIND;

EID: 0029776182     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00086     Document Type: Article

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