Meteoric smoke particles: Evidence from rocket and radar techniques

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 809-817

  Rapp, Markus ^a   Strelnikova, Irina ^a   Gumbel, Jörg ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

In situ measurements; Incoherent scatter; Mesopause region; Meteoric smoke particles

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; RADAR; ROCKETS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALTITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR (ISR); MESOPAUSE ALTITUDES; METEORIC SMOKE PARTICLES (MSP);

SMOKE;

EID: 34548257846     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.11.021     Document Type: Article

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