First observations of the artificial modulation of polar mesospheric winter echoes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Kavanagh, A J ^a   Honary, F ^a   Rietveld, M T ^b,c   Senior, A ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association   (Norway)

^c EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; GRAVITY WAVES; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIANT HEATING;

ARTIFICIAL MODULATION; IONOSPHERIC HEATING; POLAR MESOSPHERIC WINTER ECHOES (PMWE);

IONOSPHERE;

GRAVITY WAVE; HEATING; IONOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERE WINTER ECHO;

EID: 34047223453     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027565     Document Type: Article

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