Temperature sheets and aspect sensitive radar echoes

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 899-920

  Luce, H ^a   Crochet, M ^b   Dalaudier, F ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (turbulence: instruments and techniques); Radio Science (remote sensing)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035628110     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-899-2001     Document Type: Article

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