Development of radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) with Gadanki MST radar – First results

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2531-2542

  Sarma, T V Chandrasekhar ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^a   Furumoto, J ^b   Tsuda, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; RADAR; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SIGNALING; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND VELOCITY;

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

EID: 51049111856     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-2531-2008     Document Type: Article

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