Inversion of infrasound signals for passive atmospheric remote sensing

Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 701-731

  Drob, Douglas P ^a   Meier, R R ^a   Michael Picone, J ^a   Garcés, Milton M ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive acoustic remote sending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891998391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9508-5_24     Document Type: Chapter

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