Breaking of small-scale gravity wave and transition to turbulence observed in OH airglow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2153-2156

  Yamada, Y ^a   Fukunishi, H ^a   Nakamura, T ^b   Tsuda, T ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; TURBULENCE; CCD CAMERAS; LIQUID WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIRGLOW CAMERA;

GRAVITY WAVES;

AIRGLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; TURBULENCE;

BACKGROUND WINDS; BREAKING WAVES; METEOR RADARS; PHASE FRONT; SCALE STRUCTURES; SMALL SCALE GRAVITY WAVES; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; WAVEBREAKING;

EID: 0035362644     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011945     Document Type: Article

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