Global scale monitoring of acoustic and gravity waves for the study of the atmospheric dynamics

Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 647-664

  Blanc, E ^a   Le Pichon, A ^a   Ceranna, L ^a   Farges, T ^a   Marty, J ^a   Herry, P ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Infrasound sources; Sudden stratospheric warming; Vortex intensification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891970566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9508-5_21     Document Type: Chapter

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