Effects of a mid-latitude solar eclipse on the thermosphere and ionosphere - a modelling study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3787-3790

  Muller Wodarg I C F ^a   Aylward, A D ^a   Lockwood, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

HEMISPHERE; SOLAR ECLIPSE; THERMOSPHERE; COMBINED EFFECT; MIDLATITUDES; MODELLING STUDIES; NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE; NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE; NEUTRAL WINDS; THERMAL COOLING;

ASTRONOMY; IONOSPHERE;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0032532920     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900045     Document Type: Article

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