Gravity wave momentum fluxes in the MLT-Part II: Meteor radar investigations at high and midlatitudes in comparison with modeling studies

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 911-920

  Placke, Manja ^a   Hoffmann, Peter ^a   Becker, Erich ^a   Jacobi, Christoph ^b   Singer, Werner ^a   Rapp, Markus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravity waves; KMCM; Meteor radar; Middle atmosphere dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE MOMENTUM; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; KMCM; LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; METEOR RADAR; METEOR RADARS; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; MIDLATITUDES; MODELING STUDIES; MOMENTUM FLUX; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SHORT PERIODS; VERTICAL WIND; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND REVERSALS; ZONAL WIND;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; RADAR; WAVES; WIND;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79955785910     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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