Interhemispheric comparison of spectral width boundary as observed by SuperDARN radars

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1553-1565

  Hosokawa, K ^a   Woodfield, E E ^b   Lester, M ^b   Milan, S E ^b   Sato, N ^c   Yukimatu, A S ^c   Iyemori, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionosphere magnetosphere interactions; plasma convection); Magnetospheric physics (magnetopause, cusp, boundary layers)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BOUNDARY LAYER; RADAR;

EID: 0041352138     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-1553-2003     Document Type: Article

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