Responses of the mesospheric wind at high latitudes to the April 2002 space storm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Zhang, S P ^a   Salah, J E ^a   Mitchell, N ^b   Singer, W ^c   Murayama, Y ^d   Clark, R R ^e   van Eyken, A ^f   Thayer, J ^g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^f EISCAT   (Norway)

^g SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT CONVECTION; RADAR; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; IONOSPHERE;

MESOSPHERIC WIND; SPACE STORM; DENSITY ENHANCEMENT; HIGH LATITUDES; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; ION CONVECTION; MEDIUM FREQUENCY RADARS; MESOSPHERIC WINDS; METEOR WIND RADAR; WIND PATTERNS;

GEOPHYSICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

GEOMAGNETIC STORM; MESOSPHERE;

EID: 1542755825     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018521     Document Type: Article

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