Trail in the atmosphere of the 29 December 2000 meteor as recorded in Tahiti: Characteristics and trajectory reconstitution

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2002, Pages ACL-17-1-ACL-17-10

  Le Pichon, A ^a   Guerin J M ^a   Blanc, E ^a   Reymond, D ^b  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

0342 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Middle atmosphere Energy deposition; 1630 Global Change: Impact phenomena; 3362 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics; 3384 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KINETIC ENERGY; METEOR IMPACTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; TIDES; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY; WAVES;

METEOR; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 85080838470     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001283     Document Type: Article

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