Thermospheric meridional wind control of equatorial spread F and evening prereversal electric field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Abdu, M A ^a   Iyer, K N ^b   de Medeiros, R T ^c   Batista, I S ^a   Sobral, J H A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Norte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA WAVES; WIND;

PLASMA BUBBLE; PREVERSAL ELECTRIC FIELD; THERMOSPHERIC MERIDIONAL WIND CONTROL;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 33646836632     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024835     Document Type: Article

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