Ionospheric response to an auroral substorm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1979-1982

  Schunk, R W ^a   Zhu, L ^a   Sojka, J J ^a   Bowline, M D ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F REGION; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; E REGION; STORMS;

COMPOSITION CHANGES; EXPANSION PHASE; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; IONIZATION PEAKS; MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME; MAXWELLIAN VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PLASMA MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL REGIONS;

E REGION; IONOSPHERE;

AURORAL SUBSTORM; NON MAXWELLIAN VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSIENT ION UPWELLINGS;

EID: 0031207131     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01252     Document Type: Article

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