Gravity waves in the middle atmosphere during the MaCWAVE winter campaign: Evidence of mountain wave critical level encounters

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1209-1226

  Wang, L ^a   Fritts, D C ^a   Williams, B P ^a   Goldberg, R A ^b   Schmidlin, F J ^b   Blum, U ^c  

^a Colorado Res Associates Division ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; ISOTROPY; MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33646478641     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1209-2006     Document Type: Article

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