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Diurnal variation of tropospheric temperature at a tropical station
1Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum 695581, India
2Department of Physics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum 695581, India
Abstract. The vertical velocity in the troposphere-lower stratosphere region measured using MST radar has been utilized to evaluate the temperature profile in the region. The diurnal variation of the tropospheric temperature on one day in August 1998 at the tropical station Gadanki (13.5° N, 79.2° E) has been studied using the MST radar technique. The diurnal variation of the temperature revealed a prominent diurnal variation with the peak in the afternoon hours increasingly delayed in altitude. The tropopause temperature and altitude exhibited a clear diurnal cycle.
Key words. Atmospheric composition and structure (pressure, density and temperature; troposphere - composition and chemistry; instruments and technique)
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Citation: Revathy, K., Prabhakaran Nayar, S. R., and Krishna Murthy, B. V.: Diurnal variation of tropospheric temperature at a tropical station, Ann. Geophys., 19, 1001-1005, doi:10.5194/angeo-19-1001-2001, 2001. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
