Mean characteristics of mesosphere winter echoes at mid- and high-latitudes

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1087-1104

  Zeller, O ^a   Zecha, M ^a   Bremer, J ^a   Latteck, R ^a   Singer, W ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mesosphere; Polar and mid latitudes; Radar echoes; Solar and geomagnetic disturbances; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; D REGION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITY WAVES; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCES; MESOSPHERE; RADAR ECHOES; SOLAR DISTURBANCES;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

GEOMAGNETISM; LATITUDE; MESOSPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; RADAR; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33744517057     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2006.02.015     Document Type: Review

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