Optical observations of water in Leonid meteor trails

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Pellinen Wannberg, Asta ^a   Murad, Edmond ^b   Gustavsson, Björn ^c   Brändström, Urban ^a   Enell, Carl Fredrik ^a   Roth, Christopher ^d   Williams, Iwan P ^e   Steen, Åke ^f  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d Radex Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f RemSpace Group   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEORITES;

ALTITUDE EMISSIONS; HYPERTHERMAL COLLISIONS; LEONID METEOR TRAILS;

GEOPHYSICS;

METEORITE; OPTICAL METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18144437000     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018785     Document Type: Article

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