Climatologies of tidal winds in the radio-meteor region over Trivandrum (8°N)

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1757-1777

  Raghava Reddi, C ^a   Ramkumar, Geetha ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIDAL WIND;

INDIA, TRIVANDRUM;

EID: 0031402533     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(97)00042-4     Document Type: Article

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