Gravity wave propagation through a large semidiurnal tide and instabilities in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere during the winter 2003 MaCWAVE rocket campaign

• Main Authors: Williams, B. P., Fritts, D. C., She, C. Y., Goldberg, R. A.
• Other Authors: Colorado Research Associates Boulder (CoRA), NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA), Department of Physics, Colorado State University Fort Collins (CSU), GSFC Solar and Space Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Alomar; Esrange; Norway; Andenes
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00318033; https://hal.science/hal-00318033/document; https://hal.science/hal-00318033/file/angeo-24-1199-2006.pdf

International audience The winter MaCWAVE (Mountain and convective waves ascending vertically) rocket campaign took place in January 2003 at Esrange, Sweden and the ALOMAR observatory in Andenes, Norway. The campaign combined balloon, lidar, radar, and rocket measurements to produce full temperature...