Microphysical and turbulent measurements of the Schmidt number in the vicinity of polar mesosphere summer echoes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 893-896

  Lübken, Franz Josef ^a   Rapp, Markus ^a   Blix, Tom ^b   Thrane, Eivind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; SOUNDING ROCKETS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; AEROSOLS; AIR; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); IONOSPHERE; ROCKETS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TURBULENCE;

CORRELATED DEPLETION; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES (PMSE); SCHMIDT NUMBER; AEROSOL CHARGING; ELECTRON DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; ELECTRON DIFFUSION; ELECTRON DIFFUSIVITY; ELECTRON SPECTRUM; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES; TURBULENT MEASUREMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ELECTRONS;

AEROSOL; ELECTRON DIFFUSIVITY; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; SCHMIDT NUMBER;

EID: 0032520551     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50479     Document Type: Article

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