Sounding rocket observation of sporadic-E layer electron-density irregularities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1785-1788

  Mori, Hirotaka ^a   Oyama, Koh Ichiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY AGILITY; PLASMA DENSITY; POLARIZATION; PROBES; SOUNDING ROCKETS; TRAJECTORIES; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; LANGMUIR PROBES; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; ROCKETS;

FREQUENCY AGILE RADARS (FAR); LANGMUIR PROBE MEASUREMENTS; QUASI PERIODIC ECHOES (QPE);

E REGION;

ALTITUDE RANGE; DC ELECTRIC FIELD; DENSITY STRUCTURES; ELECTRON DENSITY IRREGULARITIES; FREQUENCY AGILE; PLASMA DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; QUASI-PERIODIC; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032096747     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl00862     Document Type: Article

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