On the generation of a broad downshifted spectrum of HF wave enhanced plasma lines in the ionospheric heating experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3289-3292

  Kuo, S P ^a   Lee, M C ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HEATING; LANGMUIR WAVE;

IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OSCILLATIONS; PLASMA DENSITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BROAD DOWNSHIFTED SPECTRUM; IONOSPHERIC HEATING; LANGMUIR WAVES; OSCILLATING TWO STREAM INSTABILITIES (OTSI); WAVE ENHANCED PLASMA LINES;

IONOSPHERE; GEOMAGNETISM;

IONOSPHERE;

DENSITY IRREGULARITIES; FILAMENTATION INSTABILITIES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEATING EXPERIMENT; IONOSPHERIC HEATING; PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES; PROPAGATION ANGLE; TWO STREAM INSTABILITY;

EID: 0033226287     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003652     Document Type: Article

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