First three-dimensional simulation of the Perkins instability in the nighttime midlatitude ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Yokoyama, Tatsuhiro ^a,b   Otsuka, Yuichi ^a   Ogawa, Tadahiko ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^c   Hysell, David L ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); SOLAR RADIATION; WIND;

AIRGLOW EMISSION; PERKINS INSTABILITY;

F REGION;

AIRGLOW; IONOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 41849098903     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032496     Document Type: Article

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