The macwave program to study gravity wave forcing of the polar mesosphere during summer and winter

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 530, 2003, Pages 345-350

  Goldberg, R A ^a   Fritts, D C ^b   Williams, B P ^b   Schmidlin, F J ^a   Croskey, C L ^c   Mitchell, J D ^c   Lubken F J ^d   Rapp, M ^d   Singer, W ^d   Latteck, R ^d   Blix, T A ^e   Friedrich, M ^f   Kirkwood, S ^g   Mitchell, N ^h   Fricke, K H ⁱ  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NWRA ^*  (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^e NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^f GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; SOLAR HEATING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MESOSPHERE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 0242321984     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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