Seasonal-latitudinal variation of the eastward-propagating diurnal tide with zonal wavenumber 3 in the MLT: Influences of heating and background wind distribution

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 78-79, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-43

  Zhang, Xiaoli ^a   Forbes, Jeffrey M ^a   Hagan, Maura E ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

DE3; GSWM; Heating; ISCCP; Latent; Latitudinal; Mean zonal wind; Nonmigrating tide; Radiative; SABER; Seasonal; TIMED; TRMM

Indexed keywords

DE3; GSWM; ISCCP; LATENT; LATITUDINAL; NONMIGRATING TIDES; RADIATIVE; SABER; SEASONAL; TIMED; TRMM; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY; HEATING; HEATING RATE; IONOSPHERE; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

TIDAL POWER;

EID: 84858295697     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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