Atmospheric variability and infrasound monitoring

Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 475-507

  De Groot Hedlin, Catherine D ^a   Hedlin, Michael A H ^a   Drob, Douglas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case studies; Climatology; Infrasound; Propagation; Sound

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649495518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9508-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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