Simulating the cleft ion fountain at polar perigee altitudes

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-477

  Tu, Jiannan ^a   Horwitz, James L ^a   Moore, Thomas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleft ion fountain; Day night asymmetry of ion density; Dynamic fluid semi kinetic simulation; Field aligned ion transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

DYNAMIC FLUID SEMI-KINETIC (DYFK) MODEL; ELECTRON PRECIPITATION; EMPIRICAL MODELS; THERMAL ION DYNAMICS EXPERIMENTS (TIDE);

FLUID DYNAMICS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 13944272287     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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