Lower atmospheric wind profiler at Gadanki, tropical India: Initial results

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 457-468

  Reddy, Krishnareddigari Krishna ^a,b,h   Kozu, Toshiaki ^c   Nakamura, Kenji ^d   Ohno, Yuichi ^a   Srinivasulu, Parvathala ^e   Anandan, Vengalil Koomath ^e   Jain, Atma Ram ^e   Rao, Pendyala Balarama ^e   Rao, Rachamadugu Ranga ^f   Viswanthan, Gouravaram ^f   Rao, Daggumati Narayana ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change (FORSGC)   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National MST Radar Facility   (India)

^f INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^g SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^h Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND PROFILE;

INDIA;

EID: 18244397487     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2001/0010-0457     Document Type: Article

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