Rayleigh lidar observations of enhanced stratopause temperature over Gadanki (13.5° N, 79.2° E) during major stratospheric warming in 2006

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 373-379

  Sridharan, S ^a   Sathishkumar, S ^b   Raghunath, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure; Density, and temperature; Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics; Middle atmosphere dynamics; Pressure; Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; DENSITY; GRAVITY WAVE; LIDAR; PLANETARY WAVE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING;

GADANKI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 77950331685     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-373-2009     Document Type: Article

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