Differences in near-mesopause summer winds, temperatures, and water vapor at northern and southern latitudes as possible causal factors for inter-hemispheric PMSE differences

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1529-1532

  Huaman, Mercedes M ^b   Balsley, Ben B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

HEMISPHERIC MESOPAUSE; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES;

GEOPHYSICS; WATER VAPOR;

MESOPAUSE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

GROUND BASED RADAR; MEAN-WINDS; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN LATITUDES;

EID: 0033153644     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900294     Document Type: Article

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