Warm stratopause over tropics
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Rayleigh lidar observation of a warm stratopause over a tropical site, Gadanki (13.5 N; 79.2 E) V. Sivakumar, B. Morel, H. Bencherif, J. L. Baray , S. Baldy, A. Hauchecorne, and P. B. Rao Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosphère CNRS-UMR 8105, Université de La Réunion, 15 Av. René Cassin, BP 7151, 97715 Saint-Denis Messag. Cedex 9, La Réunion, France Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Observatoire de Physique de l’Atmosphère de la Réunion (OPAR), La Réunion, France Service d’Aéronomie du CNRS, UMR 7620, France National Remote Sensing Agency, Bala Nagar, Hyderabad – 500 037, India Received: 15 January 2004 – Accepted: 26 March 2004 – Published: 2 June 2004 Correspondence to: V. Sivakumar ([email protected])
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