First observation of the overshoot effect for polar mesosphere winter echoes during radiowave electron temperature modulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Belova, Evgenia ^a   Smirnova, M ^a   Rietveld, M T ^b   Isham, B ^c   Kirkwood, S ^a   Sergienko, T ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; HEATING; METEORITES; RADAR;

OVERSHOOT EFFECT; POLAR MESOSPHERE WINTER ECHOES;

METEOROLOGY;

ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; INTERPLANETARY DUST; POLAR MESOSPHERE WINTER ECHO; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; TROMS;

EID: 41849142318     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032457     Document Type: Article

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