Recent advances in observations and modeling of the solar ultraviolet and X-ray spectral irradiance

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 895-902

  Woods, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurements; Models; Solar EUV irradiance; Solar variability

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT; MODELS; NITRIC OXIDE; SATELLITES;

SOLAR EUV; SOLAR RADIATION AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STUDENT NITRIC OXIDE EXPLORERS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITES; UV SPECTRAL IRRADIANCES;

X RAYS;

EID: 46049106937     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.09.026     Document Type: Article

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