Kilometer scale kinetic energy perturbations in the mesosphere derived from EISCAT velocity data

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-101

  Hall, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; KINETIC THEORY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONOSPHERE; KINETICS; RADAR; VELOCITY;

COHERENT SIGNALS; EUROPEAN INCOHERENT SCATTER (EISCAT); INCOHERENT SCATTER RADARS; MESOSPHERE;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; KINETIC ENERGY;

COHERENT SIGNALS; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; ENERGY PERTURBATIONS; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; VELOCITY ESTIMATION; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

EID: 0030830508     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS02988     Document Type: Article

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