A study of equatorial wave characteristics using rockets, balloons, lidar and radar

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 813-818

  Sasi, M N ^a   Murthy, B V Krishna ^b   Ramkumar, Geetha ^a   Satheesan, K ^b   Parameswaran, K ^a   Rajeev, K ^a   Sunilkumar, S V ^a   Nair, Prabha R ^a   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Bhavanikumar, Y ^c   Raghunath, K ^c   Jain, A R ^c   Rao, P B ^c   Krishnaiah, M ^d   Nayar, S R Prabhakaran ^e   Revathy, K ^e   Devanarayanan, S ^e  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c National MST Radar Facility   (India)

^d SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BALLOONS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; ROCKETS; WIND;

EQUATORIAL WAVES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; LIDAR; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; RADAR; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 10744228337     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00412-5     Document Type: Article

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