Seasonal variation of vertical eddy diffusivity in the troposphere, lower stratosphere and mesosphere over a tropical station

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 975-984

  Rao, D Narayana ^a   Ratnam, M V ^a   Rao, T N ^a   Rao, S V B ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035618223     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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