Validation of a long-range trajectory model using gas balloon tracks from the gordon bennett cup 95

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 711-720

  Baumann, Kathrin ^a   Stohl, Andreas ^b  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOON TRACK; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 0031402339     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-36.6.711     Document Type: Article

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