Rayleigh lidar observation of a warm stratopause over a tropical site, Gadanki (13.5° N; 79.2° E)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1989-1996

  Sivakumar, V ^a   Morel, B ^a   Bencherif, H ^a   Baray, J L ^a,b   Baldy, S ^a   Hauchecorne, A ^c   Rao, P B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^d NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

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