Stratospheric warming effects on the tropical mesospheric temperature field

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 17-18, 2007, Pages 2309-2337

  Shepherd, M G ^a   Wu, D L ^b   Fedulina, I N ^c   Gurubaran, S ^d   Russell, J M ^e   Mlynczak, M G ^f   Shepherd, G G ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Institute of Ionosphere   (Kazakhstan)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^e HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Satellites; Stratospheric warming; Temperature; Tropical mesosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INTERFEROMETERS; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

STATIONARY PLANETARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TOPICAL MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE FIELD;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 36248934227     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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