Rarefied gas flows through meshes and implications for atmospheric measurements

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 563-569

  Gumbel, J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure instruments and techniques; Middle atmosphere composition and chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 5944254668     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-563-2001     Document Type: Article

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