Laminar cirrus observed near the tropical tropopause by LITE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3351-3354

  Winker, D M ^a   Trepte, C R ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMINAR CIRRUS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; LAMINATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0032173149     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01292     Document Type: Article

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