Linkages between the cold summer mesopause and thermospheric zonal mean circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Siskind, David E ^a   Drob, Douglas P ^a   Emmert, John T ^a   Stevens, Michael H ^a   Sheese, Patrick E ^b   Llewellyn, Edward J ^c   Hervig, Mark E ^d   Niciejewski, Rick ^e   Kochenash, Andrew J ^f  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d GATS INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

COLD SUMMERS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMOSPHERIC WINDS; TIE-GCM; WEATHER FORECASTS; WEATHER VARIABILITY; ZONAL MEANS; ZONAL-MEAN ZONAL WINDS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ELECTRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MESOPAUSE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84855571841     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050196     Document Type: Article

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