Gravity waves in the middle atmosphere during the MaCWAVE winter campaign: evidence of mountain wave critical level encounters

Falling sphere and balloon wind and temperature data from the MaCWAVE winter campaign, which was conducted in northern Scandinavia during January 2003, are analyzed to investigate gravity wave characteristics in the stratosphere and mesosphere. There were two stratospheric warming events...

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Main Authors: L. Wang, D. C. Fritts, B. P. Williams, R. A. Goldberg, F. J. Schmidlin, U. Blum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2006-07-01
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:https://www.ann-geophys.net/24/1209/2006/angeo-24-1209-2006.pdf