Nonmigrating diurnal tides in mesospheric and lower-thermospheric winds and temperatures

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4073-4087

  Talaat, Elsayed R ^a   Lieberman, Ruth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; WIND;

NONMIGRATING DIURNAL TIDES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 0033573397     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<4073:NDTIMA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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