Small-scale field-aligned plasmaspheric density structures inferred from the Radio Plasma Imager on IMAGE

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A9, 2002, Pages

  Carpenter, D L ^a   Spasojevic M A ^a   Bell, T F ^a   Inan, U S ^a   Reinisch, B W ^b   Galkin, I A ^b   Benson, R F ^c   Green, J L ^c   Fung, S F ^c   Boardsen, S A ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d L 3 Communications Government Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Field aligned irregularities; Plasmapause; Plasmasphere; Radio sounding; Spread echoes

Indexed keywords

EID: 25744475458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009199     Document Type: Article

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