Enhanced gravity-wave activity and interhemispheric coupling during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS northern summer program 2002

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1175-1188

  Becker, E ^a   Fritts, D C ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b Northwest Research Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 33751100371     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1175-2006     Document Type: Article

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