The cleft ion plasma environment at low solar activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1877-1880

  Moore, T E ^a   Pollock, C J ^a   Adrian, M L ^b   Kintner, P M ^c   Arnoldy, R L ^d   Lynch, K A ^d   Holtet, J A ^e  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^d University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA DENSITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; ELECTRONS; HEAT FLUX; IONOSPHERE; IONS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA SOURCES; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHARACTERISTIC ENERGY; CURRENT-DRIVEN; DIFFERENTIAL VELOCITY; DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON PLASMA FREQUENCY; FLOATING POTENTIALS; ION TEMPERATURE; NEGATIVE VALUES;

IONS; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

DIRECT SOLAR PLASMA PRECIPITATION; ELECTRON PLASMA; ION HEATING; ION PLASMA COMPOSITION; ION PLASMA FLUX; LANGMUIR WAVES; SCANNING THERMAL ION COMPOSITION SPECTROMETER; SOLAR ACTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL DIFFERENTIAL VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 0030197004     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00843     Document Type: Article

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