Studies on atmospheric gravity wave activity in the troposphere and lower stratosphere over a tropical station at Gadanki

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3237-3260

  Subba Reddy, I V ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^b   Babu, A Narendra ^a   Ratnam, M Venkat ^c   Kishore, P ^d   Rao, S Vijaya Bhaskara ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b National MST Radar Facility   (India)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Convective processes; Middle atmosphere dynamics; Tropical meteorology; Waves and tides)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE;

ASIA; EURASIA; GADANKI; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 30844450323     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-3237-2005     Document Type: Article

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