Variations of the thermospheric nitric oxide mass mixing ratio as a function of Kp, altitude, and magnetic local time

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1541-1544

  Ridley, A J ^a   Crowley, G ^a   Link, R ^a   Frahm, R ^a   Winningham, J D ^a   Sharber, J R ^a   Russell III, J ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITES; IONIZATION; MAGNETISM; MIXING; NITRIC OXIDE;

MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME; MASS MIXING RATIO; PARTICLE ENVIRONMENT MONITOR; THERMOSPHERE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; IMPACT IONIZATION;

ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; AURORA; MIXING; NITRIC OXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; DENSITY ENHANCEMENT; ENVIRONMENT MONITOR; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC LATITUDE; MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME; PARTICLE PRECIPITATION; SOLAR ILLUMINATION;

EID: 0033153679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900301     Document Type: Article

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