Impact of terrestrial weather on the upper atmosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Fuller Rowell, T J ^a   Akmaev, R A ^a   Wu, F ^a   Anghel, A ^a   Maruyama, N ^a   Anderson, D N ^a   Codrescu, M V ^a   Iredell, M ^b   Moorthi, S ^b   Juang, H M ^b   Hou, Y T ^b   Millward, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; MODEL STRUCTURES; MODULATION; SEPARATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DYNAMICAL CORE; GAS CONSTANTS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM MODEL; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; MODEL SIMULATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; PLANETARY WAVES; SEMI-DIURNAL; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; SPECIFIC ENTHALPY; SPECIFIC HEATS; STOCHASTIC NATURE; TERRESTRIAL WEATHER;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTHALPY; GEODYNAMO; IONOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; THERMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 48549093860     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032911     Document Type: Article

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