Observed response of the earth's lower thermosphere to a major geomagnetic storm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 575-578

  Salah, Joseph E ^a   Deng, Wei ^a   Clark, Ronald R ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; RADAR; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; METEOR WIND RADAR; ZONAL WIND;

STORMS;

GEOMAGNETIC STORM; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; METEOR WIND RADAR; SEMIDIURNAL TIDAL STRUCTURE; ZONAL WIND FIELD;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, MILLSTONE HILL;

EID: 0029730167     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00307     Document Type: Article

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