Atmospheric gravity waves in the Red Sea: A new hotspot

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-79

  Magalhaes, J M ^a   Araujo I B ^b   Da Silva, J C B ^b,e   Grimshaw, R H J ^c   Davis, K ^d   Pineda, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; ENVISAT-1; GRAVITY WAVE; HOT SPOT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79551704749     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-18-71-2011     Document Type: Article

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