Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-1865-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-1865-2012
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17 Feb 2012
Research article |  | 17 Feb 2012

The climatology, propagation and excitation of ultra-fast Kelvin waves as observed by meteor radar, Aura MLS, TRMM and in the Kyushu-GCM

R. N. Davis, Y.-W. Chen, S. Miyahara, and N. J. Mitchell

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