Mountain waves entering the stratosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2543-2562

  Smith, Ronald B ^a   Woods, Bryan K ^a   Jensen, Jorgen ^b   Cooper, William A ^b   Doyle, James D ^c   Jiang, Qingfang ^d   Grubişiĉ, Vanda ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UCAR   (United States)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FLUXES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDFORMS; OZONE; REFLECTION; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; WATER VAPOR; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ENERGY FLUXES; MOUNTAIN WAVES;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; OROGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 51749097969     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2598.1     Document Type: Article

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