Enhanced Arctic stratospheric gravity wave activity above a tropospheric jet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2453-2456

  Whiteway, James A ^a   Duck, Thomas J ^b,c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GRAVITY WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; RADIOSONDES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADIAN ARCTIC; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOON MEASUREMENTS; MOUNTAIN WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES ACTIVITY; TROPOSPHERIC JET; JET STREAMS; MOUNTAIN WAVE; WAVE ACTIVITY; WEATHER STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS;

GRAVITY WAVE; JET FLOW; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC; CANADA;

EID: 0033371565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900548     Document Type: Article

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