Observational study of the 4-day wave in the mesosphere preceding the sudden stratospheric warming events during 1995 and 2002

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Azeem, S M I ^a   Talaat, E R ^b   Sivjee, G G ^a   Liu, H L ^c   Roble, R G ^c  

^a EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERFEROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER (MI); SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING (SSW);

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; MESOSPHERE;

EID: 26044467044     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023393     Document Type: Article

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