Climatology and storm time dependence of nighttime thermospheric neutral winds over Millstone Hill

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A5, 2002, Pages

  Fejer, B G ^a   Emmert, J T ^a   Sipler, D P ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance thermospheric winds; Fabry Perot winds; Ionosphere thermosphere coupling; Midlatitude thermosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044272013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA000300     Document Type: Article

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