A new source of auroral infrared emission observed by TIMED/SABER

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Mertens, Christopher J ^a   Fernandez, Jose R ^a   Xu, Xiaojing ^b   Evans, David S ^c   Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Russell III, James M ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ION EXCHANGE;

CHARGE TRANSFER PROCESSES; INFRARED EMISSIONS; LIMB EMISSIONS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; NEW SOURCES; PHYSICS-BASED; VOLUME EMISSION RATES;

MASS TRANSFER;

AURORA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 57049156052     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034701     Document Type: Article

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