Gravity-wave-scale temperature fluctuations seen by the UARS MLS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3289-3292

  Wu, D L ^a   Waters, J W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COHERENT LIGHT; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL GRADIENTS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

GRAVITY WAVE SCALE TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; LIMB TRACKING; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITE (UARS);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

GRAVITY WAVE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; POLAR VORTEX; RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERIC CONVECTION; UARS;

MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; PHASE COHERENCE; PROPAGATING WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITES; VARIANCE MAPS;

EID: 0030292178     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02924     Document Type: Article

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