Seasonal variations of the diurnal tide induced by gravity wave filtering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 943-946

  Mayr, H G ^a   Mengel, J G ^b   Chan, K L ^c   Porter, H S ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; IONOSPHERE;

DIURNAL TIDES; DOPPLER SPREAD PARAMETERIZATION (DSP); GRAVITY WAVE FILTERING; NUMERICAL SPECTRAL MODEL (NSM); WIND MEASUREMENTS; DOPPLER SPREAD PARAMETERIZATION; MEAN ZONAL WINDS; MOMENTUM SOURCES; NUMERICAL SPECTRAL MODELS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMALL SCALE GRAVITY WAVES; WIND MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; MOMENTUM;

DIURNAL TIDE; EQUINOX; GRAVITY WAVE; SEASONALITY; ZONAL CIRCULATION;

EID: 0032051448     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00637     Document Type: Article

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