Influence of the diurnal tide and thermospheric heat sources on the formation of mesospheric temperature inversion layers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1483-1486

  States, Robert J ^a   Gardner, Chester S ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); LIGHT ABSORPTION; SODIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WIND;

MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE INVERSION LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032073061     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00850     Document Type: Article

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