A concentric gravity wave structure in the mesospheric airglow images

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Suzuki, Shin ^a   Shiokawa, K ^a   Otsuka, Y ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Nakamura, K ^a   Nakamura, T ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; GRAVITY WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR IMAGING; WIND;

AIRGLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; PHASE VELOCITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 34250328955     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006558     Document Type: Article

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