Understanding the transportation process of tropospheric air entering the stratosphere from direct vertical air motion measurements over Gadanki and Kototabang

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Rao, T Narayana ^a   Uma, K N ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^b   Fukao, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

AIR MOTION; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS; RADIATIVE BUDGET; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; SEASONAL MEAN; TWO-STEP PROCESSES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL AIR VELOCITY; WIND PROFILERS; WIND REVERSALS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ERROR ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; GADANKI; INDIA; INDONESIA; KOTOTABANG; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAMIL NADU; WEST SUMATRA;

EID: 53749095591     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034220     Document Type: Article

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