Zonal winds in the equatorial upper thermosphere: Decomposing the solar flux, geomagnetic activity, and seasonal dependencies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Huixin ^a   Lühr, Hermann ^b   Watanabe, Shigeto ^a   Köhler, Wolfgang ^b   Henize, Vance ^b   Visser, Pieter ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; E REGION; F REGION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR WIND; THERMOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

HELIOTHIS ZEA VIRUS 1;

EID: 33846461175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011415     Document Type: Article

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