Smart tetroons for Lagrangian air-mass tracking during ACE 1

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D9, 1999, Pages 11709-11722

  Businger, Steven ^a   Johnson, Randy ^b   Katzfey, Jack ^c   Siems, Steven ^d   Wang, Qing ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Field Research Division   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; BALLOON OBSERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SULFUR; TRACKING;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 0343235030     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JD100094     Document Type: Article

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