Aura-MLS observations of water vapor entering the stratosphere over the Northern bay of Bengal and East Equatorial Indian Ocean

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-368

  Uma, Kizhathur Narasimhan ^a   Das, Subrata Kumar ^b   Das, Siddarth Shankar ^a   Kumar, Karanam Kishore ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; MLS; Stratospheric water vapour

Indexed keywords

AURA (SATELLITE); MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MONSOON; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; SUMMER; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84878827595     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2012.11.06.01(A)     Document Type: Article

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