Propagation of short-period gravity waves at high-latitudes during the MaCWAVE winter campaign

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1227-1243

  Nielsen, K ^a   Taylor, M J ^a   Pautet, P D ^a   Fritts, D C ^b   Mitchell, N ^c   Beldon, C ^c   Williams, B P ^b   Singer, W ^d   Schmidlin, F J ^e   Goldberg, R A ^e  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwest Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MESOSPHERE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ESRANGE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORRBOTTEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33751111434     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1227-2006     Document Type: Article

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