Seasonal variations of gravity wave structures in OH airglow with a CCD imager at Shigaraki

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 51, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 897-906

  Nakamura, T ^a   Higashikawa, A ^a   Tsuda, T ^a   Matsushita, Y ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRGLOW; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0033368707     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353248     Document Type: Article

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