Dynamic rayed aurora and enchanced ion-acoustic radar echoes

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-11

  Blixt, E M ^a   Grydeland, T ^a   Ivchenko, N ^b,c   Hagfors, T ^d   La Hoz, C ^a,e   Lanchester, B S ^a   Lovhaug U P ^a   Trondsen, T S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e Earth/Atmosph Science Department ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Auroral ionosphere; Plasma waves and instabilities; Particle acceleration)

Indexed keywords

AURORA;

EID: 15544381563     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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