Joule heating due to vertical ion currents in the lower thermosphere over the dip equator

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 833-837

  Raghavarao, R ^a   Sridharan, R ^a   Suhasini, R ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GEODYNAMO; JET FLOW; WARMING;

EID: 0032419480     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352176     Document Type: Article

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