Non-Markovian electron diffusion in the auroral ionosphere at high Langmuir-wave intensities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 807-810

  Sanbonmatsu, K Y ^a   Doxas, I ^a   Goldman, M V ^a   Newman, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; SOUNDING ROCKETS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN GASES; ELECTRONS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

AURORAL IONOSPHERE; AUTOCORRELATION TIME; DIFFUSION MODEL; ELECTRON DIFFUSION; FIELD-ALIGNED ELECTRONS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; NON-MARKOVIAN MODELING; QUASILINEAR DIFFUSION;

DIFFUSION; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

LANGMUIR WAVES; NON MARKOVIAN ELECTRON DIFFUSION; QUASILINEAR DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION;

EID: 0031125021     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00669     Document Type: Article

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