Seasonal evolution of total and gravity wave induced laminae in ozonesonde data in the tropics and subtropics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1863-1866

  Grant, William B ^a   Pierce, R Bradley ^a   Oltmans, Samuel J ^b,c   Browell, Edward V ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; MECHANICAL WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE;

STRATOSPHERE; SUBTROPICS; BIOMASS-BURNING; DEEP CONVECTION; LAMINAR STRUCTURE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; ROSSBY WAVE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL STATIONS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

OZONE LAYER; TROPICS;

GRAVITY WAVE; OZONESONDE DATA; STRATIFICATION; SUBTROPICS; TROPICS;

EID: 0032100140     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl01297     Document Type: Article

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