Novel artificial optical annular structures in the high latitude ionosphere over EISCAT

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Kosch, M J ^a   Rietveld, M T ^b   Senior, A ^a   McCrea, I W ^c   Kavanagh, A J ^d   Isham, B ^b   Honary, F ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRONS; GEOPHYSICS; MORPHOLOGY; TURBULENCE; F REGION; IONOSPHERE; LIGHT EMISSION;

OPTICAL ANNULAR STRUCTURES; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL SIGNATURES; WAVE REFLECTIONS;

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

IONOSPHERE;

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; LANGMUIR TURBULENCE; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL SIGNATURES; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 6044223493     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019713     Document Type: Article

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