Enhancement of gravity wave activity observed during a major Southern Hemisphere stratospheric warming by CHAMP/GPS measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Ratnam, M Venkat ^a   Tsuda, T ^a   Jacobi, C ^b   Aoyama, Y ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravity waves; Middle atmospheric dynamics; Stratospheric warming

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; THERMAL EFFECTS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (SH); SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING (SSW);

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; WARMING;

EID: 7044284782     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019789     Document Type: Article

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