Evaluation of spreading critical exponents from the spatiotemporal evolution of emission regions in the nighttime aurora

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Uritsky, Vadim M ^a,b   Klimas, Alexander J ^a   Vassiliadis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LIGHT EMISSION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPACECRAFT; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

ULTRAVIOLET IMAGERS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; DYNAMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LOCALIZED PERTURBATION; NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEM; SCALING RELATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL RELATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

AURORA; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; EMISSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242305867     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016556     Document Type: Article

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