Statistical analysis of the occurrence of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances over Brazilian low latitudes using OI 630.0 nm emission all-sky images

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Candido, Claudia M N ^a   Pimenta, A A ^a   Bittencourt, J A ^a   Becker Guedes, F ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ENERGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALL SKIES; EMISSION IMAGES; OPTICAL DATUMS; OPTICAL SIGNATURES; SOLAR ACTIVITIES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL STUDIES; TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; LATITUDE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOSPHERE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 57049184143     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035043     Document Type: Article

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