Plasmaspheric hiss overview and relation to chorus

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1636-1646

  Bortnik, Jacob ^a   Thorne, Richard M ^a   Meredith, Nigel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chorus; Plasmaspheric hiss; Very low frequency; Whistler waves

Indexed keywords

CHORUS; PLASMASPHERE; PLASMASPHERIC HISS; RAY PATHS; VERY LOW FREQUENCY; WHISTLER WAVES;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 70349772031     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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