Planetary and gravity waves in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere region over Tirunelveli (8.7°N, 77.8°E) during stratospheric warming events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Sathishkumar, S ^a   Sridharan, S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^b NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TIME-GCM; WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVELET SPECTRUM; WIND REVERSALS; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WAVES;

WIND;

GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE ACTION;

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

EID: 67349213692     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037081     Document Type: Article

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