Could negative ion production explain the polar mesosphere winter echo (PMWE) modulation in active HF heating experiments?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Kero, A ^a   Enell, C F ^a   Kavanagh, A J ^b   Vierinen, J ^a   Virtanen, I ^c   Turunen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; HEATING; IONS; MODULATION; NEGATIVE IONS;

CHEMISTRY MODELS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; HEATING EXPERIMENTS; NEGATIVE ION; POLAR MESOSPHERES; TIME-SCALE; VHF RADARS;

ELECTRONS;

ANION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; MESOSPHERE; RADAR; TURBULENCE;

EID: 60149091227     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035798     Document Type: Article

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