High- and mid-latitude quasi-2-day waves observed simultaneously by four meteor radars during summer 2000

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 773-788

  Merzlyakov, E ^a   Pancheva, D ^b   Mitchell, N ^b   Forbes, J M ^c   Portnyagin, Yu I ^a   Palo, S ^c   Makarov, N ^a   Muller, H G ^d  

^a Institute of Experimental Meteorology Science and Production Association   (Russian Federation)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^d CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (middle atmosphere dynamics; waves and tides general or miscellaneous)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; INSTABILITY; RADAR IMAGERY; ROSSBY WAVE; SUMMER; WAVE GENERATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 1942536170     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-773-2004     Document Type: Article

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