Three-dimensional measurements of traveling ionospheric disturbances with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Nicolls, Michael J ^a   Heinselman, Craig J ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VISCOSITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND;

ADVANCED MODULAR INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE; TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

GRAVITY WAVE; IONOSPHERE; KINEMATICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; SCATTERING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH;

ALASKA; FAIRBANKS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38549115199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031506     Document Type: Article

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