The ISL Langmuir probe experiment processing onboard DEMETER: Scientific objectives, description and first results

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 472-486

  Lebreton, J P ^a   Stverak, S ^b,c   Travnicek, P ^b   Maksimovic, M ^c   Klinge, D ^a   Merikallio, S ^a   Lagoutte, D ^d   Poirier, B ^d   Blelly, P L ^d   Kozacek, Z ^e   Salaquarda, M ^e  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b IAP   (Czech Republic)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d LPCE CNRS   (France)

^e CSRC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Electron density; Ionospheric plasma; Perturbations; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRODES; PLASMAS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE;

IONOSPHERIC PLASMA; LANGMUIR PROBE EXPERIMENT; PERTURBATIONS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33646482242     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2005.10.017     Document Type: Article

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