The correlation of longitudinal/seasonal variations of evening equatorial pre-reversal drift and of plasma bubbles

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2571-2578

  Li, G ^a   Ning, B ^a   Liu, L ^a   Ren, Z ^a,b,c   Lei, J ^d   Su, S Y ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIFT BEHAVIOR; F REGION; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; PLASMA; SATELLITE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 37749025257     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-25-2571-2007     Document Type: Article

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