Variability of atmospheric winds and waves in the Arctic polar mesosphere during a stratospheric sudden warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Bhattacharya, Yajnavalkya ^a   Shepherd, G G ^a   Brown, S ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

0310 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Airglow and aurora; 3332 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Mesospheric dynamics; 3334 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341, 0342); 3369 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Thermospheric dynamics (0358)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERFEROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; MERIDIONAL WINDS; WIND-VELOCITY TIME SERIES;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 16644381743     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020389     Document Type: Article

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