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Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Geophysical Research Letters
Volume
18
Issue
7
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Publication Date
7-1991
First Page
1337
Last Page
1340
Abstract
Near infrared images showing wave structure in the hydroxyl (OH) nightglow emission have been obtained from Maui, Hawaii during the ALOHA‐90 campaign. Analysis of two nights during this campaign (25 and 31 March) indicate extensive, highly coherent, linear wave patterns of very short apparent period (∼5 and 10 min respectively). Both displays exhibited several features characteristic of the in situ breakdown of a large scale, long period, upper atmospheric wave disturbance. Data in support of this mechanism was found by other ALOHA instruments which detected concurrent long period (1–2 hour) mesospheric wave disturbances on both occasions. However, a tropospheric source for these waves cannot be ruled out. At least on 25 March a weather front occurred at ∼1400 km range with a favourable orientation and location. Although its range was relatively large, background winds may have substantially increased the path length of the waves through the intervening atmosphere.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, M.J., and R. Edwards, Observations of short period mesospheric wave patterns: In situ or tropospheric wave generation?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 1337, 1991.
Comments
Published by the American Geophysical Union in Geophysical Research Letters: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1991/91GL01516.shtml
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