First observations of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows in an upper level jet stream using VHF frequency domain interferometry

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1149-1160

  Chilson, Phillip B ^a,c   Muschinski, Andreas ^b   Schmidt, Gerhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; VELOCITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OSCILLATIONS; TROPOSPHERE;

HIGH RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ BILLOWS; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; RADAR RESOLUTION; SCATTERING LAYER; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN INTERFEROMETRY; KELVIN HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY (KHI);

EID: 0031130471     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS00088     Document Type: Article

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