Geostrophic wind fields in the stratosphere and mesosphere from satellite data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue D23, 2002, Pages

  Oberheide, J ^a,b   Lehmacher, G A ^c   Offermann, D ^a   Grossmann, K U ^a   Manson, A H ^d   Meek, C E ^d   Schmidlin, F J ^e   Singer, W ^f   Hoffmann, P ^f   Vincent, R A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

3332 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Mesospheric dynamics; 3334 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341,0342); 3360 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Remote sensing; 3394 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Instruments and techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 9144264570     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000655     Document Type: Article

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