Observations of the breakdown of an atmospheric gravity wave near the cold summer mesopause at 54N

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 879-882

  Hecht, James H ^a   Fricke Begemann, Cord ^b   Walterscheid, Richard L ^a   Höffner, Josef ^b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOPAUSE;

GRAVITY WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; COLD SUMMERS; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; LOW ALTITUDES; NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; WAVE BREAKDOWN;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GRAVITATIONAL PROSPECTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE; NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS;

EID: 0034353345     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010792     Document Type: Article

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