Immediate impact of the Mt Chaiten eruption on atmosphere from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC constellation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Kuo Ying ^a   Lin, Song Chin ^a   Lee, Lou Chuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; MID-LATITUDES; PEAK TEMPERATURES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; VOLCANIC PLUMES; WARM AIRS; MT CHAITEN; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC PLUME;

VOLCANOES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

COSMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GPS; PLUME; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WESTERLY;

CHILE; LOS LAGOS; MOUNT CHAITEN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 65249135608     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036802     Document Type: Article

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