Seasonal variability of the diurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over Maui, Hawaii (20.7°N, 156.3°W)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Xian ^a   Liu, Alan Z ^b   Oberheide, Jens ^c   Wu, Qian ^d   Li, Tao ^e   Li, Zhenhua ^a   Swenson, Gary R ^f   Franke, Steven J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; IONOSPHERE; RADAR;

BROADBAND EMISSION RADIOMETRY; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; DIURNAL TIDES; DOPPLER INTERFEROMETERS; GLOBAL-SCALE WAVE MODELS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; METEOR RADARS; MIGRATING DIURNAL TIDE; NONMIGRATING TIDES; PHASE VARIATION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; THERMOSPHERE IONOSPHERE MESOSPHERE ENERGETICS AND DYNAMICS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AMPLITUDE; INTERFEROMETER; MESOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; THERMOSPHERE; WAVE MODELING; WAVELENGTH; WIND MEASUREMENT;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052517005     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015599     Document Type: Article

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