Lidar observations of the middle atmospheric temperature characteristics over Wuhan in China

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 605-610

  Chang, Qi Hai ^a   Yang, G T ^a   Gong, S S ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Lidar; Middle atmosphere; Temperature; Variation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY; RADIOSONDES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

RADIOSONDE DATA; RAYLEIGH LIDAR; STRATOPAUSE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; LIDAR; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; WORLD; WUHAN;

EID: 15344339482     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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