Thanks Warren, I knew if I made outlandish enough suggestions someone would
come up who knew the answer !! I wasn't sure of the definition but guessed
at what you described. If there are gravity waves due to CME shocks, these
should be detectable on a microbarograph ?? I keep wondering about playing
in that area....trying to correlate the fading pattern with pressure
changes......The problem could be the interaction is a "magnetic" collision
and it wont correlate....but I wont know til I (or someone else ) try it.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 05 January 2005 21:58
Subject: LF: Gravity Waves
Alan,
The term "Gravity Waves" as used in geophysics (as opposed to
astrophysics) refers to a wave at a density discontinuity whose restoring
force is gravity. You are correct in making the analogy with waves on the
ocean surface, ocean waves are a type of gravity wave. One can envison a
similar phenomena wherever there is a pronounced disconinuity - such as at
boundary between atmospheric or ionospheric layers (tropopause, stratopause,
etc.)
In my mis-spent youth I did graduate studies in geophysics!
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73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ
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