Day to night variation in meteor trail measurements: Evidence for a new theory of plasma trail evolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Oppenheim, Meers M ^a   Sugar, Glenn ^a   Bass, Elizabeth ^a   Dimant, Yakov S ^a   Chau, Jorge ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PLASMAS;

METEOR TRAIL PLASMA DIFFUSION; NON-SPECULAR ECHOES;

METEORITES;

DETECTION METHOD; IONOSPHERE; METEOR; PLASMA; RADAR;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 41849140854     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032347     Document Type: Article

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