Large-scale traveling atmospheric disturbances (LSTADs) in the thermosphere inferred from CHAMP, GRACE, and SETA accelerometer data

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1057-1066

  Bruinsma, Sean L ^a   Forbes, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a CNES   (France)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Gravity wave; TAD; Thermosphere

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER DATA; ACCELEROMETER MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; ION DRAG; LOCAL TIME; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; MAGNETIC ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION SPEED; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR FLUX; SOLAR MINIMA; SWARM MISSION; WAVE ACTIVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; SOLAR ENERGY; WAVES;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 77954955671     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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