Characteristic vertical wavenumbers for the polar mesosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 837-840

  Hall, C M ^a   Hoppe, U P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; DEPOSITION RATES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

WAVENUMBERS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; IONOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; LARGE SCALE; MESOSPHERE; WAVE NUMBER;

NORWAY, TROMSO;

ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; POLAR MESOSPHERE; TIME AVERAGES; VERTICAL COMPONENT; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

EID: 0031115335     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00805     Document Type: Article

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