Measuring ionospheric densities, temperatures, and drift velocities simultaneously at Jicamarca

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2941-2944

  Aponte, Nestor ^a   Woodman, Ronald F ^b   Swartz, Wesley E ^a   Farley, Donald T ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DOPPLER EFFECT; E REGION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; F REGION; PLASMA WAVES; RADAR CLUTTER; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC FIELDS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION (ACF); VERTICAL PLASMA DRIFT VELOCITY;

IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AUTOCORRELATION;

ALTITUDE RANGE; ANTENNA SIDELOBES; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; COHERENT ECHOES; DRIFT VELOCITIES; FIELD-ALIGNED IRREGULARITIES; NARROW BANDWIDTH; ZONAL ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 0031276798     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02898     Document Type: Article

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