Oscillations in polar mesospheric summer echoes and bifurcation of noctilucent cloud formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 653-656

  Sugiyama, Takuya ^a   Muraoka, Yoshikazu ^b   Sogawa, Hisato ^a   Fukao, Shoichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD ICE PARTICLE; CLOUD STRUCTURE; NOCTILUCENT CLOUD SIMULATION; OSCILLATION; PROTON HYDRATE; SUMMER ECHO;

USA, ALASKA, POKER FLAT;

EID: 0029752986     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00383     Document Type: Article

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