Temperatures using radar-meteor decay times

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3297-3300

  Hocking, W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; IONIZATION OF GASES;

MESOPAUSE REGION; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES; RADAR-METEOR DECAY TIMES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RADAR;

MESOSPHERE; METEORITE; RADAR; TEMPERATURE;

ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; MESOPAUSE REGION; MESOPAUSE TEMPERATURES; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOR TRAILS; RADAR METEOR; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

EID: 0033226430     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003618     Document Type: Article

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