Measurements of meteor smoke particles during the ECOMA-2006 campaign: 2. Results

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 486-496

  Strelnikova, Irina ^a   Rapp, Markus ^a   Strelnikov, Boris ^a   Baumgarten, Gerd ^a   Brattli, Alvin ^b   Svenes, Knut ^b   Hoppe, Ulf Peter ^b   Friedrich, Martin ^c   Gumbel, Jörg ^d   Williams, Bifford P ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Colorado Research Associates Division ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

In situ measurements; Meteor smoke particles

Indexed keywords

GAS DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; MEASUREMENTS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; ROCKETS; SMOKE; SPACE FLIGHT; XENON;

ALTITUDE RANGES; CHARGE STATE; DATA CHANNELS; FLASH LAMPS; IN SITU MEASUREMENTS; METEOR SMOKE PARTICLES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERES; MODEL RESULTS; NEGATIVE CHARGES; NUMBER DENSITIES; PARTICLE CHARGING; PARTICLE DETECTIONS; PARTICLE IMPACTS; PHOTOELECTRON CURRENTS; ROCKET FLIGHTS; SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS; TRIBOELECTRIC CHARGING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 62149095407     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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