Antarctic Publications by Dave Fritts and Colleagues

Baumgaertner, A. J. G., A. J. McDonald, R. E. Hibbins, D. C. Fritts, D. J. Murphy, and R. A. Vincent, 2008:
       Short-period planetary waves in the Antarctic middle atmosphere, J. Atmos. Solar-Terres. Phys., 70 (10), 1336-1360.
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Diettrich, J., G. J. Nott, P. J. Espy, G.R. Swenson, X. Chu, M. J. Taylor, D. M. Riggin, and D.C. Fritts, 2005:
        High frequency atmospheric gravity-wave properties using Fe-lidar and OH-imager observations,
        Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L09801, doi:10.1029/2004GL021944.

Espy, P. J., R. E. Hibbins, G. O. L. Jones, D. M. Riggin, and D. C. Fritts, 2003: Rapid, large-scale temperature changes
        in the polar mesosphere and their relationship to meridional flows
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Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1240,
        doi:10.1029/2002GL016452.

Espy, P. J., R. E. Hibbins, D. M. Riggin, and D. C. Fritts, 2005: Mesospheric planetary waves over Antarctica
        during 2002, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32,
L21804, doi:10.1029/2005GL023886. *****  Paper.pdf  *****

Espy, P. J., R. E. Hibbins, G. R. Swenson, J. Tang, M. J. Taylor, D. M. Riggin, and D. C. Fritts, 2006: Regional
        variations of mesospheric gravity wave momentum fluxes over Antarctica, Ann. Geophys., 24,
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1432-0576/ag/2006-24-81, 81-88***********  Paper.pdf  ************

Fritts, D. C., D. M. Riggin, B. B. Balsley, and R. G. Stockwell, 1998: Recent results with an MF radar
        at McMurdo, Antarctica: Characteristics and variability of motions near 12-hour period in the
        mesosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 297-300.

Hibbins R. E., P. J. Espy, M. J. Jarvis, D. M. Riggin, and D. C. Fritts, 2007: A climatology of tides and gravity wave
        variance  in the MLT above Rothera, Antarctica obtained by MF radar, J. Atmos. Solar-Terres. Phys., 69, 578-588. 

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Hibbins, R. E., J. D. Shanklin, P. J. Espy, M. J. Jarvis, D. M. Riggin, D. C. Fritts, and F.-J. Luebken, 2005:
        Seasonal variations
in the horizontal wind structure from 0 - 100 km above Rothera Station (67 S, 68 W),
       
SRef-ID: 1680-7324/acp/2005-5-2973, 2973-2980. ***********  Paper.pdf  ************

Jones, G. O. L., M. A. Clilverd, P. J. Espy, S. Chew, D. C. Fritts, and D. M. Riggin, 2004: An alternative
         explanation of PMSE-like scatter in MF radar data, Ann. Geophys., 22 (8), 2715-2722.

Murphy, D. J., T. Aso, D. C. Fritts, R. E. Hibbins, A. J. McDonald, D. M. Riggin, M. Tsutsumi, and R. A. Vincent, 2009:
         Source regions for the Antarctic MLT non-migrating semidiurnal tide, GRL, submitted.
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Murphy, D. J., J. M. Forbes, R. L. Walterscheid, M. E. Hagan, S. K. Avery, T. Aso, G. J. Fraser, M. J. Jarvis,
        D. M. Riggin, D. C. Fritts, M. Tsutsumi, and R. A. Vincent, 2006: A climatology of tides in the Antacrtic
        mesosphere
, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006803.  
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Riggin, D., D. C. Fritts, M. J. Jarvis, and O. L. Jones, 1999: Spatial structure of the 12-hour wave in
        the Antarctic as observed by radar, Earth Planets Space, 51, 621-628.

Riggin, D., C. K. Meyer, D. C. Fritts, Y. Murayama, K. Igarashi, R. A. Vincent, W. Singer, and D. J.
        Murphy, 2003: MF radar observations of semidiurnal motions in the mesosphere at high northern
        and southern latitudes
, J. Atmos. Solar-Terres. Phys. , 65, 483-493. 
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