Evidence for dynamical coupling from the lower atmosphere to the thermosphere during a major stratospheric warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Funke, B ^a   Lpez Puertas, M ^a   Bermejo Pantalen, D ^a   Garca Comas, M ^a   Stiller, G P ^b   Von Clarmann, T ^b   Kiefer, M ^b   Linden, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DYNAMICAL COUPLING; ENVISAT SATELLITE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; IN-SITU; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER FOR PASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; MODEL PREDICTION; PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR ATMOSPHERE; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; WAVE AMPLIFICATION; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ENVISAT-1; INTERFEROMETER; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; THERMOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77954685555     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043619     Document Type: Article

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