Gravity waves observed from the Equatorial Wave Studies (EWS) campaign during 1999 and 2000 and their role in the generation of stratospheric semiannual oscillations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2481-2491

  Deepa, V ^a   Ramkumar, G ^a   Murthy, B V Krishna ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b B1 Ceebros ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE;

ASIA; EURASIA; GADANKI; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 33751120394     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-2481-2006     Document Type: Article

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