Polar mesosphere winter echoes during MaCWAVE

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1245-1255

  Kirkwood, S ^a   Belova, E ^a   Blum, U ^b,f   Croskey, C ^c   Dalin, P ^a   Fricke, K H ^b   Goldberg, R A ^d   Manninen, J ^e   Mitchell, J D ^c   Schmidlin, F ^d  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDING; MESOSPHERE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33751077491     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1245-2006     Document Type: Article

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