Evidence for stratosphere sudden warming-ionosphere coupling due to vertically propagating tides

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Pedatella, N M ^a   Forbes, J M ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY; GPS TEC; IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATION; IONOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY WAVES; PRIMARY MECHANISM; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TIME PERIODS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; ZONAL WAVENUMBER; ZONAL WIND; ZONAL-MEAN ZONAL WINDS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; TIDES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON DENSITY; GEODYNAMO; GPS; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77953555659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043560     Document Type: Article

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