Determination of low latitude plasma drift speeds from FUV images

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Immel, Thomas J ^a   Mende, Stephen B ^a   Frey, Harald U ^a   Peticolas, Laura M ^a   Sagawa, Eiichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOLAR RADIATION; NASA; PLASMA DENSITY;

AIRGLOW ARCS; FAR ULTRAVIOLET; LOCAL TIME; LOW LATITUDES; MAGNETIC LATITUDE; PLASMA DRIFTS; SOLAR 10.7 CM RADIO FLUXES; VERTICAL ELECTRIC FIELDS;

GEOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0346281582     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017573     Document Type: Article

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