Impact of quasi-biennial oscillation on the inter-annual variability of the tropopause height and temperature in the tropics: A study using COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 observations

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 139, Issue , 2014, Pages 62-70

  Kumar, V ^a,b   Dhaka, S K ^a   Reddy, K K ^c   Gupta, A ^a,b   Prasad, S B Surendra ^c   Panwar, V ^a   Singh, Narendra ^d   Ho, Shu Peng ^e   Takahashi, M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c YOGI VEMANA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ^*  (India)

^e UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual variation; COSMIC FORMOSAT 3; QBO; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATIONS; COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; QBO; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUDS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COSMIC; FORMOSAT-3; OSCILLATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84893144064     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.12.014     Document Type: Article

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