Response of the ionosphere-thermosphere system to magnetospheric processes

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2358-2373

  Schunk, R W ^a   Zhu, L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High latitudes; Ionosphere; Simulations; Thermosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; GEOMAGNETISM; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMAS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STORMS; WIND POWER;

AURORAL ARCS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS; GREENLAND; HIGH LATITUDES; IONIZATION CHANNELS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MAGNETIC STORMS; MAGNETOSPHERIC PROCESSES; MULTIPLE STRUCTURES; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; NEUTRAL GASSES; NEUTRAL WINDS; NONLINEAR PROCESSES; OUT-FLOWS; PARTICLE PRECIPITATIONS; PLASMA CONVECTIONS; POLAR CAPS; POLAR WIND JETS; POLAR WINDS; SIMULATIONS; SPACE SCIENCES; SPATIAL SCALES; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; SUBSTORMS; THERMOSPHERE; TIME- DELAYS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 56549119278     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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