Optical observations of meteoric dust in the middle atmosphere during Leonid activity in recent years 2001-2003 over India

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Padma Kumari, B ^a   Trigo Rodriguez J M ^a,b   Londhe, A L ^a   Jadhav, D B ^a   Trimbake, H K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEORITES; PHOTOMETERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

INDIA; METEORIC DUST; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; TWILIGHT PHOTOMETRIC TECHNIQUE;

METEOROLOGY;

COMET; DUST; METEOR;

EID: 26844516529     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023434     Document Type: Article

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