A direction-dependent instability of sporadic-E layers in the nighttime midlatitude ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Cosgrove, Russell B ^a   Tsunoda, Roland T ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WAVE EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELASTIC WAVES; IONOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PLANE WAVE PERTURBATIONS; MID-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; PERKINS INSTABILITY; PHASE FRONT; PLANE WAVE; SPORADIC E; WIND SHEARS; ZONAL WIND;

E REGION;

E REGION; IONOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0037107303     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl014669     Document Type: Article

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