Continuous excitation of planetary free oscillations by atmospheric disturbances

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6700, 1998, Pages 357-360

  Kobayashi, Naoki ^a   Nishida, Kiwamu ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; OSCILLATION; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SEISMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; EARTHQUAKE; EXCITATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032563957     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26427     Document Type: Article

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