Supported by Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Grant Nos. KZCX2-YW-123 and KGCX3-SYW-403);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40333034);Institute of Atmospheric Physics of CAS (Grant No. IAP07212)
The Hough mode decomposition (HMD) is used to investigate the global structures of the eastward propagating diurnal tide of zonal wavenumber 3 (DE3). The tide is delineated by using the SABER/ TIMED temperatures colle...