Effects of a kappa distribution function of electrons on incoherent scatter spectra

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1216-1223

  Saito, S ^a   Forme, F R E ^b   Buchert, S C ^a   Nozawa, S ^a   Fujii, R ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; plasma waves and instabilities); Space plasma physics (kinetic and MHD theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034368596     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-1216-2     Document Type: Article

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