Evidence for direct solar control of the mesopause dynamics through dayglow and radar measurements

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3299-3303

  Pant, T K ^a   Tiwari, D ^a   Sridharan, S ^b   Sridharan, R ^b   Gurubaran, S ^b   Subbarao, K S V ^b   Sekar, R ^c  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b Equatorial Geophysical Research Laboratory   (India)

^c PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (waves and tides)

Indexed keywords

AIRGLOW; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOPAUSE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 7244240836     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-3299-2004     Document Type: Article

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