Year-round temperature and wave measurements of the arctic middle atmosphere for 1995-1998

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 123, Issue , 2000, Pages 213-219

  Gerrard, Andrew J ^a   Kane, Timothy J ^a   Thayer, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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EID: 85040184200     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM123p0213     Document Type: Chapter

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