Vertical distribution of dust particles in the Earth's atmosphere during the 1998 Leonids

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 969-973

  Mateshvili, Nino ^a   Mateshvili, Giuli ^a   Mateshvili, Iuri ^a   Gheondjian, Lev ^a   Avsajanishvili, Olga ^a  

^a ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; DUST; METEORITE;

EID: 0033401587     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01415.x     Document Type: Article

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