Estimates of turbulent energy dissipation rates from determinations of characteristic vertical wavenumber by EISCAT

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4075-4078

  Hall, C M ^a   Hoppe, U P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION; GRAVITY WAVES;

TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION; VERTICAL WAVE NUMBERS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAVITY WAVE;

EID: 0032216018     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900094     Document Type: Article

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