Responses of mesosphere and lower thermosphere temperatures to gravity wave forcing during stratospheric sudden warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Yamashita, Chihoko ^a,b   Liu, Han Li ^a   Chu, Xinzhao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH LATITUDES; IN-SITU; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; PHASE SPEED; PLANETARY WAVES; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIME-GCM;

GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; WAVES;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WARMING; WAVE FORCE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 77952230438     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042351     Document Type: Article

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