A new SuperDARN meteor wind measurement: Raw time series analysis method and its application to mesopause region dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Yukimatu, Akira Sessai ^a   Tsutsumi, Masaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RADAR;

DECAY TIME CONSTANT; ITS APPLICATIONS; MESOPAUSE REGION; MULTI-PULSE SEQUENCE; NEUTRAL WIND VELOCITY; STANDARD ANALYSIS; UNEVENLY SAMPLED; WIND MEASUREMENT;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037110266     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015210     Document Type: Article

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