Extreme longitudinal variability of plasma structuring in the equatorial ionosphere on a magnetically quiet equinoctial day

Radio Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  McDonald, Sarah E ^a   Basu, Sunanda ^b   Basu, Santimay ^c   Groves, Keith M ^c   Valladares, Cesar E ^d   Scherliess, Ludger ^e   Thompson, Donald C ^e   Schunk, Robert W ^e   Sojka, Jan J ^e   Zhu, Lie ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PLASMAS; SCINTILLATION;

EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; EQUATORIAL SCINTILLATION; GLOBAL ULTRAVIOLET IMAGER (GUVI);

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33847080895     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RS003366     Document Type: Article

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