Mesosphere Summer Echoes as observed by VHF radar at Kuhlungsborn (54°N)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1533-1536

  Latteck, Ralph ^a,b   Singer, W ^a   Hoffner J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR STATIONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS;

NOCTILUCENT CLOUD; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES;

GEOPHYSICS; IONOSPHERE;

NOCTILUCENT CLOUD; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; TIMESCALE;

CO-LOCATED; LONG LASTING; MIDLATITUDES; NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES; SUMMER SEASON; VHF RADAR;

EID: 0033153597     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900225     Document Type: Article

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