Evidence of gravity wave breaking in lidar data from the mesopause region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Franke, Patricia Minthorn ^a   Collins, Richard L ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITATION; OPTICAL RADAR; RESONANCE; GRAVITY WAVES; IONOSPHERE; LIQUID WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SODIUM;

WAVE SATURATION; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; GRAVITY-WAVE BREAKING; MESOPAUSE REGION; OBSERVATION WINDOW; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; STARFIRE OPTICAL RANGE; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GEOPHYSICS; OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; AIRGLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; LIDAR; MESOPAUSE;

EID: 0038166257     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014477     Document Type: Article

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