Connections between deep tropical clouds and the Earth's ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Hagan, M E ^a   Maute, A ^a   Roble, R G ^a   Richmond, A D ^a   Immel, T J ^b   England, S L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DIURNAL TIDE; EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY (EIA); FAR-ULTRAVIOLET (FUV); THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE-MESOSPHERE-ELECTRODYNAMICS GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (TIME-GCM);

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUD; ELECTRODYNAMICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 37349037153     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030142     Document Type: Article

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