Mid- and low-latitude prompt-penetration ionospheric zonal plasma drifts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3071-3074

  Fejer, Bela G ^a   Scherliess, Ludger ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

PLASMA DRIFT; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; POLAR CAP POTENTIAL; PROMPT PENETRATION; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RICE CONVECTION MODELS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME CONSTANTS; ZONAL PLASMA DRIFTS;

IONOSPHERE; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0032529766     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02325     Document Type: Article

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