Investigation of short-period gravity waves with the Lindenberg 482 MHz tropospheric wind profiler

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 603 PART B, 2004, Pages 2933-2952

  Bohme T ^a   Hauf, T ^a   Lehmann, V ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Wave generation; Wave trapping; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER (CBL) ENERGY; WIND PROFILERS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; TRAPPED WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 10944222643     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.179     Document Type: Article

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