Morphology of nighttime ion, potassium and sodium layers in the meteor zone above Arecibo

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 13 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1245-1257

  Zhou, Qihou ^a   Friedman, Jonathan ^b   Raizada, Shikha ^b   Tepley, Craig ^b   Morton, Yu T ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Ion, K and Na layers; Mesopause chemistry; Mesosphere dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; IONS; OPTICAL RADAR; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; MESOPAUSE CHEMISTRY; MESOSPHERE DYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

MESOPAUSE; METEOR;

EID: 24144494542     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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