Motions of the equatorial ionization anomaly crests imaged by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Lin, C H ^a   Liu, J Y ^b   Fang, T W ^b,c   Chang, P Y ^b   Tsai, H F ^d   Chen, C H ^b   Hsiao, C C ^a  

^a NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONOSPHERE; PLASMAS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WIND EFFECTS;

EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY; EQUATORIAL PLASMA FOUNTAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION;

ASYMMETRY; ELECTRON DENSITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 37249078276     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030741     Document Type: Article

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