Titan's ionosphere: Model comparisons with Cassini Ta data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Cravens, T E ^a   Robertson, I P ^a   Clark, J ^a   Wahlund, J E ^b   Waite, Jr ^c   Ledvina, S A ^d   Niemann, H B ^e   Yelle, R V ^f   Kasprzak, W T ^e   Luhmann, J G ^d   McNutt, R L ^g   Ip, W H ^h   De La Haye, V ^c   Muller Wodarg I ⁱ   Young, D T ^j   Coates, A J ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PLASMA WAVES; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CASSINI RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE EXPERIMENT (RPWS); ION AND NEUTRAL MASS SPECTROMETER (INMS); LANGMUIR PROBE; NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE; SATURN MAGNETOSPHERE; SPACECRAFT TRACK;

GEOPHYSICS;

IONOSPHERE; TITAN;

EID: 25844510746     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023249     Document Type: Article

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