Interpretation of non-specular radar meteor trails

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 8-1-8-4

  Dyrud, Lars P ^a   Oppenheim, Meers M ^a   Close, Sigrid ^a,b   Hunt, Stephen ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOR IMPACTS; PLASMAS; SCATTERING;

RADAR METEOR TRAILS;

RADAR;

IONOSPHERE; METEOR;

EID: 0036871430     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015953     Document Type: Article

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