Structure of air density irregularities in the stratosphere from spacecraft observations of stellar scintillation: 1. three-dimensional spectrum model and recovery of its parameters

Izvestiya - Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 300-310

  Gurvich, A S ^a   Kan, V ^a  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; DENSITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0038343106     PISSN: 00014338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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