Seasonal and interannual variations of gravity wave activity in the low-latitude mesosphere and lower thermosphere over Tirunelveli (8.7° N, 77.8° E)

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3215-3223

  Sridharan, S ^a   Sathishkumar, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; GRAVITY WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSPHERE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; TIRUNELVELI;

EID: 54849418973     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-3215-2008     Document Type: Article

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