Mesospheric surf zone and temperature inversion layers in early November 1994

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1752-1763

  Oberheide, J ^a   Liu, H L ^b   Gusev, O A ^a   Offermann, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CRISTA; Mesospheric surf zone; Planetary waves; Temperature inversions; TIME GCM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSPHERIC SURF ZONE; PLANETARY WAVES; THERMAL INVERSIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE; INVERSION LAYER; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SURF ZONE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

EID: 33745967794     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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