The antarctic first regional observing study of the troposphere (FROST) project

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2007-2032

  Turner, John ^a   Bromwich, David ^b   Colwell, Steven ^a   Dixon, Stephen ^c   Gibson, Tim ^d   Hart, Terry ^c   Heinemann, Günther ^e   Hutchinson, Hugh ^c   Jacka, Kieran ^c   Leonard, Steven ^a   Lieder, Michael ^e   Marsh, Lawrie ^c   Pendlebury, Stephen ^c   Phillpot, Henry ^f   Pook, Mike ^d   Simmonds, Ian ^g  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f University of Melbourne ^*

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROST; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0030357289     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<2007:TAFROS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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