Measurements of gravity wave activity within and around the Arctic stratospheric vortex

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1387-1390

  Whiteway, J A ^a   Duck, T J ^b   Donovan, D P ^b   Bird, J C ^b   Pal, S R ^b   Carswell, A I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; DOPPLER EFFECT; METEOROLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

BACKGROUND WINDS; CRITICAL LEVEL; DOPPLER SHIFTING; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX;

VORTEX FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ARCTIC STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX; BACKGROUND WIND; GRAVITY WAVE ACTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; LARGE SCALE; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX;

ARCTIC; CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, ELLESMERE ISLAND, EUREKA;

EID: 0031158710     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01322     Document Type: Article

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