Comparison of global distributions of zonal-mean gravity wave variance inferred from different satellite instruments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 3877-3880

  Preusse, Peter ^a   Eckermann, Stephen D ^b   Offermann, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVES; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM METEOROLOGICAL EXPERIMENT; GRAVITY WAVE TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS; LIMB INFRARED MONITOR OF THE STRATOSPHERE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; ZONAL MEAN GRAVITY WAVE TEMPERATURE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

GRAVITY WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CRISTA DATA; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE VARIANCE;

EID: 0034485513     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011916     Document Type: Article

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