Polar cap optical observations of topside (>900 km) molecular nitrogen ions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1003-1006

  Romick, G J ^a   Yee, J H ^a   Morgan, M F ^a   Morrison, D ^a   Paxton, L J ^a   Meng, C I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; LIGHT EMISSION; MAGNETOSPHERE; NITROGEN; ORBITS; SATELLITES; BALLISTIC MISSILES; ION SOURCES; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

MOLECULAR NITROGEN IONS; POLAR CAP; SOLAR RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE;

IONS;

IONOSPHERE;

BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATIONS; MIDCOURSE SPACE EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULAR NITROGEN; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; PLASMA ENERGIZATION; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033117713     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900091     Document Type: Article

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