Low-altitude measurements of 2-6 MeV electron trapping lifetimes at 1.5≤ L≤2.5

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Baker, Daniel N ^a   Kanekal, S G ^a   Horne, R B ^b   Meredith, N P ^b   Glauert, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRONS; GEOPHYSICS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ELECTRON TRAPPING; LOW-ALTITUDE MEASUREMENTS;

METEOROLOGY;

ELECTRON DENSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORM;

EID: 37349112428     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031007     Document Type: Article

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