Absorption of MARSIS radar signals: Solar energetic particles and the daytime ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Espley, Jared R ^a   Farrell, William M ^a   Brain, David A ^b   Morgan, David D ^c   Cantor, Bruce ^d   Plaut, Jeffrey J ^e   Acuña, Mario H ^a   Picardi, Giovanni ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SOLAR ENERGY;

DAYTIME IONOSPHERE; RADAR SIGNALS; RADAR WAVE ABSORPTION; SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES;

IONOSPHERE;

IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; METEOR; RADAR; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 34347267232     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028829     Document Type: Article

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