Global analysis of scintillation variance: Indication of gravity wave breaking in the polar winter upper stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Sofieva, V F ^a   Kyrola E ^a   Hassinen, S ^a   Backman, L ^a   Tamminen, J ^a   Seppala A ^a   Tholix L ^a   Gurvich, A S ^b   Kan, V ^b   Dalaudier, F ^c   Hauchecorne, A ^c   Bertaux, J L ^c   Fussen, D ^d   Vanhellemont, F ^d   Fanton d'Andon, O ^e   Barrot, G ^e   Mangin, A ^e   Guirlet, M ^e   Fehr, T ^f   Snoeij, P ^g   Saavedra, L ^f   Koopman, R ^f   Fraisse, R ^h   more..

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^e ACRI ST   (France)

^f ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^h AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; GRAVITY WAVES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; STELLAR SCINTILLATIONS; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

GRAVITY WAVE; JET STREAM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 34548033956     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028132     Document Type: Article

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