Validation of Contour Advection simulations with airborne lidar measurements of filaments during the Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Midlatitude Experiment (SESAME)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 105, Issue D12, 2000, Pages 15417-15437

  Flentje, Harald ^a   Renger, Wolfgang ^a   Wirth, Martin ^a   Lahoz, William A ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; LIDAR; STRATOSPHERE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033783880     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD901205     Document Type: Article

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