Global view of the nighttime low-latitude ionosphere by the IMAGE/FUV 135.6 nm observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Sagawa, Eiichi ^a   Maruyama, Takashi ^a   Immel, Thomas J ^b   Frey, Harald U ^b   Mende, Stephen B ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; IONOSPHERE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES;

EQUATORIAL ANOMALY (EA);

GEOPHYSICS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0042784179     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl017140     Document Type: Article

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