Global survey of upper atmospheric transient luminous events on the ROCSAT-2 satellite

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 647-659

  Chern, J L ^a   Hsu, R R ^a   Su, H T ^a   Mende, S B ^b   Fukunishi, H ^c   Takahashi, Y ^c   Lee, L C ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ISUAL payload; ROCSAT 2; Satelitte observation; Transient luminous events (TLEs)

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 0038076027     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(02)00317-6     Document Type: Article

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