Gravity waves in the troposphere and stratosphere during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS summer rocket program

Geophysical Research Letters

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

  Schoch A ^a   Baumgarten, G ^a   Fritts, D C ^b   Hoffmann, P ^a   Serafimovich, A ^a   Wang, L ^b   Dalin, P ^c   Mullemann A ^a   Schmidlin, F J ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b Northwest Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

3319 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: General circulation; 3334 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341, 0342); 3362 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions; 3384 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; ROCKETS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LOWER STRATOSHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION DIRECTION; WAVE SPECTRA;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SUMMER;

EID: 14544303149     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019837     Document Type: Article

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