Ionospheric signatures of sudden stratospheric warming: Ion temperature at middle latitude

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Goncharenko, Larisa ^a   Zhang, Shun Rong ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; COOLING; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE;

CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; COOLING TEMPERATURES; GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADARS; ION TEMPERATURES; IONOSPHERIC VARIABILITIES; LOWER ATMOSPHERES; LOWER THERMOSPHERES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SOLAR FLUXES; SPACE WEATHERS; STRATOSPHERIC CHANGES; STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TEMPERATURE DATUM;

RADAR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL WARMING; IONOSPHERE; RADAR; SCATTERING; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58849165262     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035684     Document Type: Article

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