Intriguing aspects of the monsoon low-level jet over peninsular india revealed by high-resolution GPS radiosonde observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1413-1423

  Roja Raman, M ^a   Venkat Ratnam, M ^b   Rajeevan, M ^b   Jagannadha Rao, V V M ^c   Bhaskara Rao, S Vijaya ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^c SRRS Government Polytechnic   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Global positioning systems (GPS); Jets; Monsoons; Radiosonde observations

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ACTIVE PHASIS; ASIA; CROSS-EQUATORIAL FLOW; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LOW LEVEL JET; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MONSOONS; VERTICAL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

RADIOSONDES;

GPS; JET; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

GADANKI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 79960294441     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3611.1     Document Type: Article

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