Coincident equatorial bubble detection by TIMED/GUVI and ROCSAT-1

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Kil, Hyosub ^a   Su, S ^b   Paxton, Larry J ^a   Wolven, Brian C ^a   Zhang, Yongliang ^a   Morrison, Daniel ^a   Yeh, H C ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FLUX; PLASMA FLOW; SATELLITES;

EMISSION DEPLETIONS; PLASMA DEPLETIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 18144453133     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018696     Document Type: Article

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