Gravity waves above the Andes detected from GPS radio occultation temperature profiles: Jet mechanism?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  de la Torre, A ^a   Alexander, P ^a   Llamedo, P ^a   Menendez C ^a   Schmidt, T ^b   Wickert, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Universidad de Buenos Aires ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; JETS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

CHALLENGING MINI-SATELLITE PAYLOAD; LOW EARTH ORBIT; RADIO OCCULTATION;

GRAVITY WAVES;

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GPS; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELENGTH; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 34548048360     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027343     Document Type: Article

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