Horizontal meridional thermospheric winds over King George Island, Antarctica, during the June 1991 geomagnetic storm

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1007-1012

  Arriagada, Manuel A ^a   Foppiano, Alberto J ^b   Buonsanto, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL BÍO BÍO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica,Wind; Diurnal variation; Geomagnetic storm; Thermosphere

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; THERMOSPHERE; WIND;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032453945     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(98)00048-0     Document Type: Article

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