Investigation on the mesopause energetics and its possible implications on the equatorial MLTI processes through coordinated daytime airglow and radar measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Pant, Tarun Kumar ^a   Tiwari, Diwakar ^b   Vineeth, C ^a   Thampi, Smitha V ^a   Sridharan, S ^b   Devasia, C V ^a   Sridharan, R ^a   Gurubaran, S ^b   Sekar, R ^c  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^c PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; JETS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DAYTIME AIRGLOW; ION-NEUTRAL COLLISIONS; MULTIWAVELENGTH DAYGLOW PHOTOMETER; PLANETARY WAVE;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

AIRGLOW; ELECTROJET; MESOPAUSE; PHASE VELOCITY; PLANETARY WAVE;

EID: 34948828082     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030193     Document Type: Article

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