Equatorial counter electrojets and polar stratospheric sudden warmings - A classical example of high latitude-low latitude coupling?

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3147-3153

  Vineeth, C ^a   Kumar Pant, T ^b   Sridharan, R ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Equatorial ionosphere; Ionosphereatmosphere interactions; Wave propagation)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COOLING; COUPLING; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROJET; IONOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

INDIA; KERALA; THIRUVANANTHAPURAM;

EID: 73449086659     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-3147-2009     Document Type: Article

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