Antarctic Publications by Dave Fritts and Colleagues

(page updated periodically)

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,
SRef-ID:
   
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  ************

Iimura, H., D. C. Fritts, Q. Wu, W. R. Skinner, and SD. E. Palo, 2010: Nonmigrating semidiurnal tide over the Arctic
        determined from TIMED Doppler Interferometer wind observations,
J. Geophys. Res., 115, D06109,
        doi:10.1029/2009JD012733. 
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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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