Links between a stratospheric sudden warming and thermal structures and dynamics in the high-latitude mesosphere, lower thermosphere, and ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Kurihara, J ^a,b   Ogawa, Y ^c   Oyama, S ^a   Nozawa, S ^a   Tsutsumi, M ^c   Hall, C M ^d   Tomikawa, Y ^c   Fujii, R ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; RADAR;

AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; ION TEMPERATURE; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; METEOR RADARS; NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE; NEUTRAL WINDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UHF RADAR; ZONAL WIND;

IONOSPHERE;

GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMOSPHERE; WARMING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77954673200     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043643     Document Type: Article

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