Characteristics of tropopause and tropopause inversion layer in the polar region

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-144

  Tomikawa, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Nishimura, Yashiro ^c   Yamanouchi, Takashi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c Nikon System   (Japan)

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EID: 77953718534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2009-036     Document Type: Article

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