Observed coupling of the mesosphere inversion layer to the thermal tidal structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1479-1482

  Meriwether, J W ^a   Gao, X ^a   Wickwar, V B ^b   Wilkerson, T ^b   Beissner, K ^b   Collins, S ^b,d   Hagan, M E ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Arecibo Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR;

MESOSPHERE INVERSION LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; INVERSION LAYER; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032075932     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00756     Document Type: Article

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