Planetary boundary layer and precipitation studies using lower atmospheric wind profiler over tropical India

Radio Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Reddy, K Krishna ^a   Kozu, Toshiaki ^b   Ohno, Yuichi ^c   Nakamura, Kenji ^d   Higuchi, Atsushi ^d   Chandra Reddy, K Madhu ^e   Anandan, V K ^e   Srinivasulu, P ^e   Jain, A R ^e   Rao, P B ^e   Rao, R Ranga ^f   Viswanathan, G ^f   Narayana Rao, D ^g  

^a Frontier Observational Res SGC   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National MST Radar Facility   (India)

^f INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^g SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Fall velocity; Planetary boundary layer; Precipitation; Turbulence; Wind profiler

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC WIND PROFILER; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE DIFFERENCES;

WIND;

EID: 0036664016     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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