Rayleigh lidar observations of planetary waves in the middle atmosphere over Gadanki (13.5°N, 79.2°E)

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 901-910

  Kishore, P ^a   Namboothiri, S P ^a   Igarashi, K ^a   Sivakumar, V ^b   Thulasiraman, S ^c   Subba Reddy, I V ^d   Mizutani, K ^a   Narayana Rao, D ^e   Rao, S V B ^d   Bhavani Kumar, Y ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e National MST Radar Facility   (India)

Author keywords

Middle atmosphere; Planetary wave; Rayleigh lidar; Tropical meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

KELVIN WAVE; LOMB-SCARGLE PERIODOGRAM ANALYSIS; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVES; RAYLEIGH LIDAR; ROSSBY-GRAVITY WAVE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

LIDAR; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 33646044046     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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