Tropical mesopause climatology over the Arecibo Observatory

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Friedman, Jonathan S ^a  

^a ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RADAR; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPICS;

TEMPERATURE PROFILES; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL MEAN; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MESOPAUSE REGION; MIDLATITUDES; NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL LATITUDES;

CLIMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

MESOPAUSE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0344704397     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL016966     Document Type: Article

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