Long-period (12-25 days) oscillations in the summer mesopause region as measured at Collm (52°N, 15°E) and their dependence on the equatorial quasi-biennial oscillation

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 461-464

  Jacobi, Christoph ^a   Schminder, Rudolf ^a   Kürschner, Dierk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MESOPAUSE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SUMMER; ZONAL WIND;

GERMANY;

EID: 0032419710     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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