Negative ions in the auroral mesosphere during a PCA event around sunset

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 782-793

  Del Pozo, C F ^a,c   Turunen, E ^b   Ulich, T ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; ion chemistry and composition; particle precipitation)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033438236     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0782-1     Document Type: Article

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