Two day wave induced variations in the oxygen green line volume emission rate: WINDII observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1127-1130

  Ward, W E ^a   Solheim, B H ^a   Shepherd, G G ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MASS SPECTROMETERS; OXYGEN; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

PEAK TO PEAK AMPLITUDES; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; QUASI TWO-DAY WAVES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITES; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WAVE SIGNATURES; WIND IMAGING INTERFEROMETER;

OXYGEN; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

GREEN LINE NIGHTGLOW EMISSION RATE (GLVER); MASS SPECTROMETER AND COHERENT SCATTER (MSCS); PLANETARY WAVES; QUASI TWO DAY WAVES (QTDW); UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITES; WIND IMAGING INTERFEROMETER (WINDII);

NIGHTGLOW; OXYGEN GREEN LINE; TWO DAY WAVE; UARS; WINDII;

EID: 0031133845     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01022     Document Type: Article

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