Vibrationally excited nitrogen and oxygen and the origin of negative ionospheric storms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A2, 2002, Pages

  Prölss, Gerd W ^a   Werner, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

2435 Ionosphere: Ionospheric disturbances; 2447 Ionosphere: Modeling and forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844472268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA900126     Document Type: Article

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