Author:Scholes, RJ; Van Breemen, NDate:Sep 1997Alteration of land use will continue to be the dominant driver of environmental change in the tropics for the next several decades. It can take the form of fundamental vegetation cover transformation, or of intensification of existing land ...Read more
Author:Prasanth, PV; Sivakumar, V; Sridharan, S; Kumar, YB; Bencherif, H; Rao, DNDate:Oct 2009In this paper, researchers present seasonal and nocturnal variations of mesospheric sodium (Na) layer parameters observed over Gadanki (13.5° N, 79.2° E), based on 166 nights during the period from January 2005 to December 2006, for the first ...Read more
Author:Sivakumar, V; Vishnu Prasanth, P; Kishore, P; Bencherif, H; Keckhut, PDate:2011For the first time, climatology of the middle atmosphere thermal structure is presented, based on 14 years of LIDAR and satellite (HALOE, SABER, CHAMP and COSMIC) temperature measurements. The data is collected over a southern sub-tropical ...Read more