Tropical tropopause climatology as observed with radio occultation measurements from CHAMP compared to ECMWF and NCEP analyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Borsche, Michael ^a   Kirchengast, G ^a   Foelsche, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE PROFILE; TROPOPAUSE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOPAUSE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34249982161     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027918     Document Type: Article

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