Empirical wind model for the upper, middle and lower atmosphere

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1421-1447

  Hedin, A E ^a   Fleming, E L ^b   Manson, A H ^c   Schmidlin, F J ^a   Avery, S K ^d   Clark, R R ^e   Franke, S J ^f   Fraser, G J ^g   Tsuda, T ^h   Vial, F ⁱ   Vincent, R A ^j  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Applied Research Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

HWM90; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; WIND MODEL;

EID: 0030497488     PISSN: 00219169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9169(95)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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