Seasonal variation of middle latitudes wind fields of the mesopause region - A comparison between observation and model calculation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1279-1282

  Kremp, Christine ^a   Berger, Uwe ^a   Hoffmann, Peter ^a   Keuer, Dieter ^a   Sonnemann, Gerd R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITY WAVES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

COLOGNE GLOBAL THREE DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC MODEL; MESOPAUSE REGION; MIDDLE LATITUDES WIND FIELDS;

WIND;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MESOPAUSE; MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEASONALITY; WIND FIELD;

MERIDIONAL WINDS; MESOPAUSE REGION; MESOSPHERIC WINDS; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; MODEL CALCULATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 0033134288     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900218     Document Type: Article

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