The annual and semi-annual wind fields in low latitudes

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 487-495

  Raghava Reddi, C ^a   Ramkumar, Geetha ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

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EID: 0042544999     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6826(96)00051-x     Document Type: Article

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