Seasonal variation of short-period (<2 h) gravity wave activity over Gadanki, India (13.5°N, 79.2°E)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Dutta, Gopa ^a,b,d   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^a   Vinay Kumar, P ^b   Kumar, M C Ajay ^b   Alexander, Simon P ^a   Kozu, Toshiaki ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Anwarul uloom College   (India)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVES;

CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL FLUXES; MOMENTUM FLUX; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RAIN RATES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORT PERIODS; TOPOGRAPHIC GENERATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VHF RADAR; WAVE ACTIVITY; WET SEASON; WIND DATA; WIND SHEARS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; GRAVITY WAVE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND SHEAR;

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

EID: 68949162558     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009178     Document Type: Article

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