An observation of a fast external atmospheric acoustic-gravity wave

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages ACL-12-1-ACL-12-12

  Hecht, J H ^a   Walterscheid, R L ^a   Hickey, M P ^b   Rudy, R J ^a   Liu, A Z ^c  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

0310 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Airglow and aurora; 0342 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Middle atmosphere Energy deposition; 3332 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Mesospheric dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AIRGLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; IMAGING METHOD; MESOSPHERE; PHASE VELOCITY; TROPOSPHERE;

ALBUQUERQUE; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36448981088     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001438     Document Type: Article

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