Longitudinal variations of electron temperature and total ion density in the sunset equatorial topside ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ren, Zhipeng ^a,b,c   Wan, Weixing ^a   Liu, Libo ^a   Zhao, Biqiang ^a   Wei, Yong ^a,b,c   Yue, Xinan ^a,b,c   Heelis, Roderick A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; GEOMAGNETISM; IONS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

ELECTRON COOLING RATE; SUNSET EQUATORIAL TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE; TOTAL ION DENSITY;

IONOSPHERE;

COOLING; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON DENSITY; GEOMAGNETISM; ION; IONOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 43549123922     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032998     Document Type: Article

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