Convective gravity waves at mid-latitudes
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Wind-profiler observations of gravity waves produced by convection at mid-latitudes Y. G. Choi, S. C. Lee, A. J. McDonald, and D. A. Hooper Geophysical Prospecting Laboratory, Seoul National University, Korea Department of Physics, Kangnung National University, Korea Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK Received: 12 September 2005 – Accepted: 13 October 2005 – Published: 1 November 2005 Correspondence to: A. J. McDonald ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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