Airborne measurements of gravity wave breaking at the tropopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Whiteway, James A ^a   Pavelin, Edward G ^b   Busen, Reinhold ^c   Hacker, Jorg ^d   Vosper, Simon ^e  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OSCILLATIONS; RADAR; GRAVITY WAVES; LIQUID WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; TROPOPAUSE; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; GRAVITY-WAVE BREAKING; GROUND BASED; TROPOPAUSE REGION; VHF RADAR; WAVEBREAKING;

GRAVITY WAVES; CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BREAKING WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 1242300122     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018207     Document Type: Article

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