Midnight temperature maximum (MTM) in Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM) simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Akmaev, R A ^a   Wu, F ^b   Fuller Rowell, T J ^b   Wang, H ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; HIGHER ORDER; LONG TERM SIMULATION; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PHASE ADVANCE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SALIENT FEATURES; THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE; TIDAL HARMONICS; TIDAL WAVES; WAVE NUMBERS;

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DIEL VARIATION; IONOSPHERE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 67449116030     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037759     Document Type: Article

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