Inter-annual variation of gravity waves in the Arctic and Antarctic winter middle atmosphere

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2418-2423

  Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Eckermann, Stephen D ^b   Wu, Dong L ^a   Wang, Ding Yi ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Arctic; Gravity wave; Middle atmosphere; Satellite observation; UARS MLS

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GRAVITY WAVES; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 33751105873     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.036     Document Type: Article

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