Ionospheric Effects of Relativistic Electron Enhancement Events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3557-3560

  Demirkol, Mehmet K ^a,c   Inan, Umran S ^b   Bell, Timothy F ^c   Kanekal, S G ^a   Wilkinson, D C ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR RADIATION;

RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON ENHANCEMENT;

GEOPHYSICS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0033502850     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010686     Document Type: Article

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