A sporadic layer in the Venus lower ionosphere of meteoric origin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Patzold M ^a   Tellmann, S ^a   Hausler B ^b   Bird, M K ^c   Tyler, G L ^d   Christou, A A ^e   Withers, P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DENSITIES; LOWER IONOSPHERE; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; RADIO SCIENCE; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VENUS EXPRESS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; SCANNING;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

ELECTRON; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; METEORITE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLASMA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VENUS; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 65649120017     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035875     Document Type: Article

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