Vertical propagation of information in a middle atmosphere data assimilation system by gravity-wave drag feedbacks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Ren, Shuzhan ^a   Polavarapu, Saroja M ^b   Shepherd, Theodore G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; MESOSPHERIC STATE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

COOLING; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WARMING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44349086321     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032699     Document Type: Article

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