Infrasound - The cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes?

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 475-491

  Kirkwood, S ^a   Chilson, P ^b   Belova, E ^a   Dalin, P ^a   Haggstrom I ^c   Rietveld, M ^c   Singer, W ^d  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ECHO SOUNDING; MESOSPHERE; RADAR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33744516203     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-475-2006     Document Type: Article

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