A model analysis of Galileo electron densities on Jupiter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2335-2338

  Majeed, T ^a   McConnell, J C ^b   Gladstone, G R ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN; IONOSPHERE; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMAS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS;

EGRESS; INGRESS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITIES; JUPITER; ONE DIMENSIONAL CHEMICAL DIFFUSIVE MODEL;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

GALILEO MISSION; IONOSPHERE; JUPITER;

DIFFUSIVE MODEL; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITIES; IONOSPHERIC PROPERTIES; IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES; MODEL ANALYSIS; NEUTRAL WINDS; VERTICAL FLOWS; VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED;

EID: 0033428512     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900530     Document Type: Article

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