Drifting field-aligned density structures in the night-side polar cap

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Santolík, Ondrej ^a,b,c   Persoon, A M ^a   Gurnett, D A ^a   Decreau P M E ^d   Pickett, J S ^a   Marsalek O ^a,b   Maksimovic, M ^e   Cornilleau Wehrlin, N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d LPCE CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; IONOSPHERE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACECRAFT;

DENSITY STRUCTURES; EARTH RADII; IONOSPHERIC HEIGHTS; NIGHT-SIDE POLAR CAP;

SPACE RESEARCH;

AURORA; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 20044382473     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021696     Document Type: Article

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