Measurements of meteor smoke particles during the ECOMA-2006 campaign: 1. Particle detection by active photoionization

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 477-485

  Rapp, Markus ^a   Strelnikova, Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

In situ measurements; Meteor smoke particles

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GEOPHYSICS; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTONS; ROCKETS; SMOKE; SPACE FLIGHT; XENON;

A-PRIORI; AMBIENT ATMOSPHERES; CUT OFFS; FARADAY CUPS; FLASH LAMPS; IN SITU MEASUREMENTS; IN-SITU; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEAN FREE PATHS; MEASURED CURRENTS; METEOR SMOKE PARTICLES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERES; NEW DESIGNS; NEW TOOLS; PARTICLE DETECTIONS; PARTICLE SIZE RANGES; ROCKET FLIGHTS; ROCKET RANGES; SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 62149140218     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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