Tidal perturbations and variability in the mesopause region over Fort Collins, CO (41N, 105W): Continuous multi-day temperature and wind lidar observations

Geophysical Research Letters

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

  She, C Y ^a   Li, Tao ^a   Collins, Richard L ^a,b   Yuan, Tao ^a   Williams, Bifford P ^a   Kawahara, Takuya D ^a,c   Vance, Joe D ^a   Acott, Phil ^a   Krueger, David A ^a   Liu, Han Li ^d   Hagan, Maura E ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3334 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341, 0342); 3360 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Remote sensing; 3384 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SODIUM; WATER WAVES; WIND;

FORT COLLINS; MESOPAUSE REGION; TIDAL PERTURBATIONS; WIND LIDAR OBSERVATIONS;

TIDES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; LIDAR; MESOPAUSE; TEMPERATURE; TIDAL CYCLE; WIND;

EID: 20044383170     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021165     Document Type: Article

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