News from the lower Ionosphere: A review of recent developments

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 525-559

  Friedrich, Martin ^a   Rapp, M ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clouds; Incoherent scatter radar; Ionosphere; Mesosphere; Meteoric smoke; Polar mesospheric; Sounding rocket

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE RANGE; CHARGE BALANCES; CHARGED AEROSOL PARTICLES; CHARGED SPECIES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; ICE PARTICLES; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; IONOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; LOWER IONOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; METEORIC SMOKE; NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS; POLAR MESOSPHERIC; SMOKE PARTICLES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; E REGION; NITRIC OXIDE; RADAR; SMOKE; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; E REGION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD;

EID: 70350539402     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-009-9074-2     Document Type: Article

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