VHF radar observations of gravity waves at a low latitude

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1012-1019

  Dutta, G ^a   Bapiraju, B ^a   Balasubrahmanyam, P ^a   Aleen Basha, H ^a  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (middle atmosphere dynamics; turbulence; waves and tides)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033446683     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-1012-6     Document Type: Article

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