Interhemispheric distinctions in wind-regime parameters in the polar mesosphere-lower thermosphere

Izvestiya - Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-104

  Portnyagin, Yu I ^a   Merzlyakov, E G ^a   Solovs'eva, T V ^a   Makarov, N A ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33746929077     PISSN: 00014338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0001433806010099     Document Type: Article

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