Evidence for interhemispheric stratosphere-mesosphere coupling derived from noctilucent cloud properties

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Karlsson, B ^a   Kornich H ^a   Gumbel, J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

INTERHEMISPHERIC STRATOSPHERE-MESOSPHERE COUPLING; NOCTILUCENT CLOUD;

CLOUDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 35948957795     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030282     Document Type: Article

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