Temperature inversions over the inland Indochina revealed by GAME-T enhanced rawinsonde observations

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 5-8

  Ogino, Shin Ya ^a,b   Nodzu, Masato I ^a   Tachibana, Yoshihiro ^a,c   Matsumoto, Jun ^a,d   Yamanaka, Manabu D ^a,b   Watanabe, Akira ^e  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 77954798762     PISSN: 13496476     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2010-002     Document Type: Article

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