Structures in sporadic-E observed with an impedance probe during the SEEK campaign: Comparisons with neutral-wind and radar-echo observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1781-1784

  Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a   Ono, Takayuki ^a   Oya, Hiroshi ^a   Tsunoda, Roland T ^b   Larsen, Miguel F ^c   Fukao, Shoichiro ^d   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; E REGION; IONOSPHERE; PROBES; RADAR; ROCKETS; SPACE FLIGHT; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOUNDING ROCKETS; WIND EFFECTS;

ALTITUDE PROFILES; GROUND BASED RADAR; MID-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; ROCKET MEASUREMENTS; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; STRATIFIED LAYERS; TRIMETHYL ALUMINUMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT; E REGION;

NEUTRAL WIND PROFILES; QUASI PERIODIC ECHOES (QPE); SWEPT FREQUENCY IMPEDANCE PROBES; TRIMETHYL ALUMINUM;

EID: 0032095856     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl00709     Document Type: Article

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