Gravity waves in the arctic mesosphere during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS summer rocket program

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Williams, B P ^a,b   Fritts, D C ^a   Wang, L ^a   She, C Y ^b   Vance, J D ^b   Schmidlin, F J ^c   Goldberg, R A ^c   Mulleman A ^d   Lubken F J ^d  

^a Div of Northwest Res Associates ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

0341 Atmospheric composition and structure: Middle atmosphere Constituent transport and chemistry (3334); 3332 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Mesospheric dynamics; 3384 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOPHYSICS; OBSERVATORIES; ROCKETS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND;

ARTIC MESOSPHERE; GRAVITY WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND GRADIENTS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SUMMER;

EID: 14544286828     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020049     Document Type: Article

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