Similarities in middle atmosphere structures

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 333-342

  Offermann, Dirk ^a   Oberheide, Jens ^a   Jarisch, Michael ^a   Grossmann, Klaus Ulrich ^a   Gusev, Oleg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOPAUSE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; SURF ZONE; THERMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33745935031     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0135     Document Type: Article

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