Analysis of the oxygen nightglow measured by the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope: Implications for ionospheric partial radiative recombination rate coefficients

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A7, 1999, Pages 14901-14913

  Melendez Alvira D J ^a   Meier, R R ^a   Picone, J M ^a   Feldman, P D ^b   McLaughlin, Brendan M ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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