A study of tropical tropopause using MST radar

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2441-2448

  Satheesan, K ^a,b   Krishna Murthy, B V ^c  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

^b Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Convective process; Middle atmosphere dynamics; Tropical meteorology)

Indexed keywords

RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 27844461528     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-2441-2005     Document Type: Article

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