Wind Motions around the Tropical Cirrus Using Simultaneous Radar and Lidar Observations over Gadanki (13.45°N, 79.18°E), India
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50420#.VD4fp1fHRK0 Author(s) C. Dhananjaya Rao 1,2 , M. Arunachalam Srinivasan 1* , M. Krishnaiah 1 , Y. Bhavani Kumar 3 , S. V. B. Rao 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India . 2 Seshachala Institute of Technology, Puttur, India . 3 National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Gadanki, India . ABSTRACT The present study describes variation of peak linear depolarization ratio (LDR) with wind around the cloud altitude using simultaneous observation of winds and cirrus cloud for the first time using Indian MST radar and polarization lidar co-located over a low latitude station Gadanki (13.7°N and 79.2°E). Three ...