Using data obtained various sources namely Radiosonde, Automatic weather station and boundary layer lidar the lower stratosphere at Chennai (madras India Lat13.04N Lan80.17E) is studied specially with reference to winter of 2007 (Jan-Feb) and the results presented. © 2008 SPIE.

V. S. Murty

Manas Bhattacharjee

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS

AWS AND LIDAR DATA FOR LOWER ATMOSPHERE

LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS

LOWER STRATOSPHERE

RADIOSONDE DATAS

Boundary layers

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Meteorological instruments

Optical radar

RADIOSONDES

Remote sensing

SULFUR COMPOUNDS

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES

Atmospherics

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It currently offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees across 16 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. About 596 faculty belonging to science and engineering departments and centres of the Institute are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy.

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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Monitoring low-level cloud activity using boundary layer lidar, AWS, and Radiosonde data over Chennai

Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN	0277786X
Open Access	No