Meteor fluxes and visual magnitudes from EISCAT radar event rates: A comparison with cross-section based magnitude estimates and optical data

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1475-1485

  Pellinen Wannberg, A ^a   Westman, A ^a   Wannberg, G ^b   Kaila, K ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionization mechanisms); Radio science (ionospheric physics); Space plasma physics (ionization processes)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004903829     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-1475-x     Document Type: Article

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