Performance of the AQUA and NOAA-16 soundings over India

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1281-1287

  Singh, Devendra ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Radiosonde; Retrievals; Satellite; Temperature profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749099453     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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