Hydrodynamic tropospheric wave sources and their role in gravity wave climatology of the upper atmosphere from the MU radar observations

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 931-943

  Gavrilov, N M ^a   Fukao, S ^b  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gravity waves; Middle atmosphere; Wave sources

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; HYDRODYNAMICS; RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0034965063     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(00)00200-5     Document Type: Article

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