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Taylor et al. 1995
Taylor, M.J., Fritts, D.C. and Isler, J.R. (1995). Determination of horizontal and vertical structure of an unusual pattern of short period gravity waves imaged during ALOHA-93. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL02945. issn: 0094-8276.

An all-sky CCD imager has been used to measure the properties of short period gravity waves present over the Hawaiian Islands during the ALOHA-93 campaign. Observations of emissions from four different altitudes provided a capability to describe the vertical as well as the horizontal structure of the wave field. On several occasions during this campaign an unusual morphology wave pattern was detected that consisted of a group of small-scale waves oriented in the same direction. These were most noticeable in the OI (557.7 nm) emission, altitude ~96 km, and were usually observed in association with a larger scale gravity wave. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of data recorded on the night of 22 October during which both types of waves were prominent. The small-scale waves exhibited highly coherent phase structures at each emission altitude, consistent with a ducted wave motion. The spatial intensity and phase modulation of this display is indicative of interference between two waves with similar characteristics and slightly different propagation directions. The larger scale wave motion was observed to propagate perpendicular to the small-scale waves, and showed evidence of phase progression with altitude, implying upward energy propagation. These data have been interpreted in the context of simultaneous wind measurements from an MF radar. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Airglow and aurora, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Waves and tides
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