Relationship between variability of the semidiurnal tide in the Northern Hemisphere mesosphere and quasi-stationary planetary waves throughout the global middle atmosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4239-4256

  Xu, X ^a   Manson, A H ^a   Meek, C E ^a   Chshyolkova, T ^a   Drummond, J R ^b   Hall, C M ^c   Jacobi, Ch ^d   Riggin, D ^e   Hibbins, R E ^f   Tsutsumi, M ^g   Hocking, W K ^h   Ward, W E ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Middle atmosphere dynamics; Polar meteorology; Waves and tides)

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; COUPLING; MESOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; WINTER;

ARCTIC; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN; SASKATOON; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 70749113264     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-4239-2009     Document Type: Article

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