On relationships between horizontal velocity structure and thermal ion upwellings at high latitudes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1829-1832

  Kivanc O ^a   Heelis, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F REGION; HEATING; IONS; JOULE HEATING; PLASMA WAVES; IONOSPHERE; SPEED; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

ENERGIZATION; FRICTIONAL HEATING; HIGH LATITUDES; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; ION DRIFTS; ION HEATING; VELOCITY SHEAR; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW; F REGION;

HORIZONTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE; JOULE HEATING; THERMAL ION UPWELLINGS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0032710485     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900371     Document Type: Article

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