The Guará campaign: A series of rocket-radar investigations of the Earth's upper atmosphere at the magnetic equator

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1663-1666

  Pfaff, R F ^a   Sobral, J H A ^b   Abdu, M A ^b   Swartz, W E ^c,f   LaBelle, J W ^d   Larsen, M F ^e   Goldberg, R A ^a   Schmidlin, F J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^e CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Sch of Elec and Comp Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRODYNAMICS; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERFEROMETERS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOMETERS; RADAR; ROCKETS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; NASA; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

EARTH MAGNETIC EQUATOR; EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET; IONOSONDES; MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE THERMOSPHERE COUPLING; SCINTILLATION RECEIVERS; SPREAD F PROCESSES; SUNSET ELECTRODYNAMICS;

GEOPHYSICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET; EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GROUND BASED; MAGNETIC EQUATOR; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT;

AVES; CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA;

EID: 0031177590     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01534     Document Type: Article

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