High-frequency vertical profiling of meteorological parameters using AMF1 facility during RAWEX-GVAX at ARIES, Nainital

Current Science

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 132-140

  Naja, Manish ^a   Bhardwaj, Piyush ^a   Singh, Narendra ^a   Kumar, Phani ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^b   Ojha, N ^a   Sagar, Ram ^c   Satheesh, S K ^d   Krishna Moorthy, K ^e   Kotamarthi, V R ^f  

^a ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Radiosonde; Subtropical jet; Tropopause folding; Vertical profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990927985     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v111/i1/132-140     Document Type: Article

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