Coordinated investigation of plasma and neutral density fluctuations and particles during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS summer 2002 program

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Croskey, Charles L ^a   Mitchell, John D ^a   Goldberg, Richard A ^b   Blix, Tom A ^c   Rapp, Markus ^d   Latteck, Ralph ^d   Friedrich, Martin ^e   Smiley, Byron ^f  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^e GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

0342 Atmospheric composition and structure: Middle atmosphere Energy deposition; 2419 Ionosphere: Ion chemistry and composition (0335); 2427 Ionosphere: Ionosphere atmosphere interactions (0335); 3332 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Mesospheric dynamics; 3334 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341, 0342)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA THEORY; PLASMAS;

NEUTRAL DENSITY MEASUREMENT; NEUTRAL GAS; PLASMA MEASUREMENTS; TURBULENT ACTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS;

MESOSPHERE; PLASMA; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SUMMER;

EID: 14544269838     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020169     Document Type: Article

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