Some results of simultaneous meteor radar measurements of wind at the Obninsk and Dixon stations

Izvestiya - Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-39

  Merzlyakov, E G ^a   Portnyagin, Yu I ^a   Makarov, N A ^a   Forbes, J M ^b   Palo, S ^b  

^a NPO Energia   (Russian Federation)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSPHERE; RADAR; THERMOSPHERE; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038319143     PISSN: 00014338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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