Global study of northern hemisphere quasi-2-day wave events in recent summers near 90 km altitude

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1401-1411

  Meek, C E ^a   Manson, A H ^a   Franke, S J ^b   Singer, W ^c   Hoffmann, P ^c   Clark, R R ^d   Tsuda, T ^e   Nakamura, T ^e   Tsutsumi, M ^e   Hagan, M ^f   Fritts, D C ^g   Isler, J ^g   Portnyagin, Yu I ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Institut fur Atmospharenphysik   (Germany)

^d Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UCB 450   (United States)

^h RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; WAVE AMPLITUDE; WAVE EVENT;

EID: 0030469074     PISSN: 00219169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9169(95)00120-4     Document Type: Article

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