The MaCWAVE program to study gravity wave influences on the polar mesosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1159-1173

  Goldberg, R A ^a   Fritts, D C ^b   Schmidlin, F J ^a   Williams, B P ^b   Croskey, C L ^c   Mitchell, J D ^c   Friedrich, M ^d   Russell III, J M ^e   Blum, U ^f   Fricke, K H ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Colorado Research Associates Div ^*  (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; SATELLITE; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 33750622295     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1159-2006     Document Type: Article

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