Correlations of mesospheric variability and their relation to the large-scale circulation during polar winter

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 17-18, 2007, Pages 2279-2291

  Shepherd, Gordon G ^a   Cho, Young Min ^a   Liu, Guiping ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airglow; Dynamics; High latitude; Mesosphere; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OZONE LAYER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIRGLOW; HIGH-LATITUDE; MESOSPHERE;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 36148988814     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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