The atmospheric background situation in northern Scandinavia during January/February 2003 in the context of the MaCWAVE campaign

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1189-1197

  Blum, U ^a,e   Baumgarten, G ^b   Schoch A ^b   Kirkwood, S ^c   Naujokat, B ^d   Fricke, K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FIELD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33751077048     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1189-2006     Document Type: Article

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