Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7813-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7813-2013
Research article
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14 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 14 Aug 2013

The roles of vertical advection and eddy diffusion in the equatorial mesospheric semi-annual oscillation (MSAO)

R. L. Gattinger, E. Kyrölä, C. D. Boone, W. F. J. Evans, K. A. Walker, I. C. McDade, P. F. Bernath, and E. J. Llewellyn

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