Turbulence at the tropopause due to breaking Kelvin waves observed by the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Fujiwara, Masatomo ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki K ^a   Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Horinouchi, Takeshi ^a   Fukao, Shoichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; KINETIC ENERGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITY WAVES; KINETICS; PLASMA THEORY; RADAR; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TURBULENCE;

KELVIN WAVES; TROPOPAUSE; EQUATORIAL ATMOSPHERE RADAR; INDONESIA; RADAR ECHOES; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TROPOPAUSE REGION; TURBULENCE GENERATION; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

KELVIN WAVE; RADAR IMAGERY; TROPOPAUSE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0038504808     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016278     Document Type: Article

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