Are polar cap gravity waves a heat source for the high-latitude thermosphere?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1487-1490

  Innis, J L ^a   Greet, P A ^a   Dyson, P L ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

POLAR CAPS; THERMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

GRAVITY WAVE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; MAWSON;

EID: 0032076352     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01026     Document Type: Article

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