Highly localized cooling in daytime mesopause temperature over the dip equator during counter electrojet: First results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Vineeth, C ^a   Pant, Tarun Kumar ^a   Devasia, C V ^a   Sridharan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIDES;

DAYTIME MESOPAUSE TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC EQUATOR; MESOSPHERE LOWER THERMOSPHERE IONOSPHERE (MLTI); TIDAL INTERACTION;

METEOROLOGY;

COOLING; COUPLING; ELECTROJET; GRAVITY WAVE; IONOSPHERE; MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THERMOSPHERE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA; THIRUVANANTHAPURAM;

EID: 34548570353     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030298     Document Type: Article

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