Fast thermospheric wind jet at the Earth's dip equator

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Huixin ^a,b,c   Watanabe, Shigeto ^a   Kondo, Tsutomu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIP EQUATOR; EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY; ION DRAG; THERMOSPHERIC WINDS; ZONAL WIND;

JETS;

DIEL VARIATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; IONIZATION; JET; THERMOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 67449167996     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037377     Document Type: Article

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