Modulation of tropopause temperature structure revealed by simultaneous radiosonde and CHAMP GPS measurements

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 989-1003

  Ratnam, M Venkat ^a   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^a   Mori, S ^b   Kozu, T ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GPS; KELVIN WAVE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; KOTOTABANG; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST SUMATRA;

EID: 33847654678     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.989     Document Type: Article

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