Gravity wave characteristics observed, over a tropical station using high-resolution GPS radiosonde soundings

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Nath, Debashis ^a   Venkat Ratnam, M ^a   Jagannadha Rao, V V M ^b,c   Krishna Murthy, B V ^c   Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, S ^d  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b Department of Physics Sri Raja Rajeswara Swamy Government Polytechnic   (India)

^c Ceebros ^*  (India)

^d SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVES;

CONTINUOUS DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW SNR; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE-STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE RADARS; POST-MONSOON; PRE-MONSOON; RADIOSONDE DATA; SEMIANNUAL VARIATION; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOTAL ENERGY; TROPICAL EASTERLY JET; TROPICAL STATIONS; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS;

RADAR;

DATA SET; GPS; GRAVITY WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSPHERE; RADAR; RADIOSONDE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELENGTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; GADANKI; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 66449102446     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011056     Document Type: Article

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