Meteor trail advection and dispersion; preliminary lidar observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 675-678

  Grime, Brent W ^a,d   Kane, Timothy J ^a,d   Collins, Stephen C ^b   Kelley, Michael C ^b   Kruschwitz, Craig A ^b   Friedman, Jonathan S ^c   Tepley, Craig A ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^d 121 Electrical Engineering East ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; DIFFUSION IN GASES; METEORITES; OPTICAL RADAR; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

METEOR TRAIL ADVECTION; METEOR TRAIL DISPERSION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

METEORITE;

EID: 0033559744     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900053     Document Type: Article

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