Recent observations of mesospheric temperature inversions over a tropical station (13.5°N, 79.2°E)

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-334

  Venkat Ratnam, M ^a   Nee, J B ^a   Chen, W N ^a   Siva Kumar, V ^b   Rao, P B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b National MST Radar Facility   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical heating; Gravity waves; Temperature inversions; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TURBULENCE;

GADANKI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 0038347387     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(02)00337-1     Document Type: Article

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