Interaction between direct penetration and disturbance dynamo electric fields in the storm-time equatorial ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Maruyama, Naomi ^a   Richmond, A D ^a   Fuller Rowell, Tim J ^b   Codrescu, Mihail V ^b   Sazykin, S ^c   Toffoletto, F R ^c   Spiro, R W ^c   Millward, George H ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STORMS;

COUPLED THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE PLASMASPHERE-ELECTRODYNAMICS (CTIPE) MODEL; DIRECT PENETRATION (DP) ELECTRIC FIELDS; DISTURBANCE DYNAMO (DD) ELECTRIC FIELDS; DISTURBANCE ELECTRIC FIELD; RICE CONVECTION MODEL (RCM); STORM-TIME EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 27544457800     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023763     Document Type: Article

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