VHF radar investigations on the role of mechanical oscillator effect in exciting convectively generated gravity waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Kumar, Karanam Kishore ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); SURVEILLANCE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CONVECTIVELY GENERATED GRAVITY WAVES; DEEP CONVECTION;

GRAVITY WAVES;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; OSCILLATION; RADAR; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548090472     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027404     Document Type: Article

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