The potential role of stratospheric ozone in the stratosphere-ionosphere coupling during stratospheric warmings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Goncharenko, L P ^a   Coster, A J ^a   Plumb, R A ^b   Domeisen, D I V ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TIDES;

COMPLEX ROLES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; IONOSPHERIC TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; OZONE DENSITY; OZONE FLUCTUATIONS; PLANETARY WAVES; PRIMARY MECHANISM; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; TIDAL FORCING;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DISTURBANCE; ELECTRON; IONOSPHERE; OZONE; PLANETARY WAVE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; STRATOSPHERE; TIDAL CYCLE; WARMING;

EID: 84860147542     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051261     Document Type: Article

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