Observations of extreme temperature and wind gradients near the summer mesopause during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS rocket campaign

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Fritts, D C ^a   Williams, B P ^a,b   She, C Y ^b   Vance, J D ^b   Rapp, M ^c   Lubken F J ^c   Mullemann A ^c   Schmidlin, F J ^d   Goldberg, R A ^e  

^a Division of Northwest Associates ^*  (United States)

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

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

0342 Atmospheric composition and structure: Middle atmosphere Energy deposition; 3332 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Mesospheric dynamics; 3334 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341, 0342); 3379 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Turbulence; 3384 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; ROCKETS; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

MEAN FIELDS; MESOPAUSE; WIND GRADIENTS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WIND;

EID: 14544304076     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019389     Document Type: Article

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