Modeling the relaxation of red sprite plasma

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3293-3296

  Nunn, David ^b   Rodger, Craig J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION;

IONIZATION RELAXATION; RED SPRITE PLASMAS;

IONOSPHERE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

IONOSPHERE; SPRITE;

HIGHLY-IONIZED; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RED SPRITE; RELAXATION MODELS; THREE MODELS; TIME DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0033226687     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003578     Document Type: Article

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