On the post-sunset rise of the equatorial F layer and superposed upwellings and bubbles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Tsunoda, Roland T ^a   Ecklund, Warner L ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGE SENSORS; POLARIZATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; SUN;

DRIFT VELOCITY; GROUND-BASED SENSOR; LARGESCALE WAVE STRUCTURE; PLASMA BUBBLES;

GEOPHYSICS;

BUBBLE; CORRELATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; F REGION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; UPWELLING;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POHNPEI [(STT) FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA];

EID: 34547980422     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028832     Document Type: Article

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