Observations of the April 2002 geomagnetic storm by the global network of incoherent scatter radars

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 163-181

  Goncharenko, L P ^a   Salah, J E ^a   Van Eyken, A ^b   Howells, V ^c   Thayer, J P ^d   Taran, V I ^e   Shpynev, B ^f   Zhou, Q ^g   Chau, J ^h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF IONOSPHERE   (Ukraine)

^f INSTITUTE OF SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^g MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Auroral ionosphere; Mid latitude ionosphere; Equatorial ionosphere); Magnetosphereic physics (Storm and substorms)

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC STORM;

EID: 15544385362     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-163-2005     Document Type: Article

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