Spatial structures and statistics of atmospheric gravity waves derived using a heuristic vertical cross-section extraction from COSMIC GPS radio occultation data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Horinouchi, Takeshi ^a   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COSMOLOGY; CRACK PROPAGATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; BACKGROUND WINDS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY; CROSS SECTION; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; FORMOSAT-3; HIGH LATITUDES; HORIZONTAL CROSS SECTION; IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATES; MIDLATITUDES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SOURCE REGION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; ZONAL WIND;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

GPS; GRAVITY WAVE; HEURISTICS; RADIO WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SKEWNESS; WAVELENGTH; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 71949128846     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011068     Document Type: Article

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