A comparative study of daytime mesopause temperatures obtained using unique ground based optical and meteor wind radar techniques over the magnetic equator

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Vineeth, C ^a   Pant, Tarun Kumar ^a   Antonita, Maria ^a   Ramkumar, Geetha ^a   Devasia, C V ^a   Sridharan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RADAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL GRADIENTS; IONOSPHERE;

MAGNETIC EQUATOR; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION (SAO); TEMPERATURE VARIABILITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RADAR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MESOPAUSE; TEMPERATURE;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; MAGNETIC EQUATOR; MESOPAUSE TEMPERATURES; MESOSPHERE LOWER THERMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; METEOR WIND RADAR; ROTATIONAL TEMPERATURE; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

EID: 28144433116     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023728     Document Type: Article

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