Meteor smoke particle properties derived from Arecibo incoherent scatter radar observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Strelnikova, Irina ^a   Rapp, Markus ^a   Raizada, Shikha ^b   Sulzer, Mike ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEBRIS; METEOR IMPACTS; METEORITES; POSITIVE IONS; SMOKE;

METEORIC SMOKE PARTICLES; NUMBER DENSITY; SPECTRAL LINES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ALGORITHM; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; METEOR; RADAR IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34948839331     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030635     Document Type: Article

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