Signatures of 3–6 day planetary waves in the equatorial mesosphere and ionosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3343-3350

  Takahashi, H ^a   Wrasse, C M ^a   Pancheva, D ^b   Abdu, M A ^a   Batista, I S ^a   Lima, L M ^c   Batista, P P ^a   Clemesha, B R ^a   Shiokawa, K ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL WAVE; IONOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; RADAR; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ZONAL WIND;

ASCENSION ISLAND; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; CARIRI; CEARA; FORTALEZA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845967111     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-3343-2006     Document Type: Article

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