Global and seasonal distribution of gravity wave activity in Mars' lower atmosphere derived from MGS radio occultation data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Creasey, John E ^a   Forbes, Jeffrey M ^a   Hinson, David P ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TROPICS;

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (MGS); RADIO OCCULTATION; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTION;

METEOROLOGY;

GRAVITY WAVE; MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 33644622994     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024037     Document Type: Article

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