A wave-driven nonlinear current in the E-region ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3333-3336

  Oppenheim, Meers ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; E REGION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRONS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; OSCILLATIONS; ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PARALLEL FLOW; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA WAVES; ROCKETS;

IONOSPHERIC WAVES; PEDERSEN CURRENT; PLASMA WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; E REGION;

ACOUSTIC SPEED; CURRENT FLOWS; DOPPLER VELOCITY; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; NON-SINUSOIDAL; NONLINEAR CURRENT; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; ROCKET-BORNE;

EID: 0030291726     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03100     Document Type: Article

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