High resolution measurements and modeling of auroral hydrogen emission line profiles

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1629-1643

  Lanchester, B S ^a   Galand, M ^b   Robertson, S C ^a   Rees, M H ^a   Lummerzheim, D ^d   Furniss, I ^c   Peticolas, L M ^e   Frey, H U ^e   Baumgardner, J ^b   Mendillo, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; particle precipitation); Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena)

Indexed keywords

EMISSION; HYDROGEN; IONOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING;

EID: 0041852783     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-1629-2003     Document Type: Article

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