Forecasting the dynamic and electrodynamic response to the January 2009 sudden stratospheric warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Fuller Rowell, Tim ^a,b   Wang, Houjun ^a,b   Akmaev, Rashid ^b   Wu, Fei ^a,b   Fang, Tzu Wei ^a,b   Iredell, Mark ^b   Richmond, Arthur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; E REGION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; DIURNAL VARIATION; HIGH FIDELITY; LOW LATITUDES; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; MAJOR EVENTS; NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; IONOSPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 79960248022     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047732     Document Type: Article

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