Perturbed profiles of oxygen nightglow emissions as observed by WINDII on UARS

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1018-1028

  Liu, Guiping ^a   Shepherd, Gordon G ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airglow; Atomic oxygen; Dynamics; Gravity waves; Perturbations; Tides

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL PROSPECTING; GRAVITY WAVES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; TIDES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND POWER;

AIRGLOW; ATOMIC OXYGEN; UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITE; WIND IMAGING INTERFEROMETER;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIRGLOW; DATA PROCESSING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; INTERFEROMETER; NIGHTGLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; UARS;

EID: 33646499687     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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