The use of state-of-the-art kites for profiling the lower atmosphere

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-25

  Balsley, Ben B ^a   Jensen, Michael L ^a   Frehlich, Rod G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KITE; OZONE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0031669258     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000812511429     Document Type: Article

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