Simultaneous mesosphere/lower thermosphere and thermospheric F region observations during geomagnetic storms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A4, 2004, Pages

  Balan, N ^a,b   Kawamura, S ^c,d   Nakamura, T ^c   Yamamoto, M ^c   Fukao, S ^c   Igarashi, K ^d,g   Maruyama, T ^d,g   Shiokawa, K ^e   Otsuka, Y ^e   Ogawa, T ^e   Alleyne, H ^a   Watanabe, S ^f   Murayama, Y ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airglow; Electron density; GPS TEC; Mesosphere thermosphere experiments; Zonal and meridional wind velocities

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745583636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009982     Document Type: Article

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