A simple scale height model of the electron density in Saturn's plasma

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Persoon, Ann M ^a   Gurnett, Donald A ^a   Kurth, William S ^a   Groene, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DENSITY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ORBITS; PLANETS;

CENTRIFUGAL POTENTIAL MODEL; PLAMA INJECTION;

PLANETS; ELECTRONS;

ELECTRON DENSITY; MAGNETOSPHERE; MODELING; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLASMA; RADIO WAVE; SATURN;

CASSINI SPACECRAFT; CUBIC POLYNOMIALS; ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA INJECTION; POTENTIAL MODEL; RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE SCIENCE; UPPER HYBRID RESONANCE;

EID: 34548597646     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027090     Document Type: Article

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