Peculiarities of interannual changes in the mean wind and gravity wave characteristics in the mesosphere over Shigaraki, Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2457-2460

  Gavrilov, N M ^b   Fukao, S ^a   Nakamura, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; GRAVITY WAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND; IONOSPHERE; MOMENTUM; RADAR;

INTERANNUAL CHANGES; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; MEAN WIND; MESOSPHERE; MOMENTUM FLUXES; ANNUAL VARIATIONS; INTERANNUAL; MEAN ZONAL WINDS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MOMENTUM FLUX; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033395952     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900559     Document Type: Article

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