Broad plasma decreases in the equatorial ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Huang, Cheryl Y ^a   Marcos, Frank A ^a   Roddy, Patrick A ^a   Hairston, Marc R ^b   Robin Coley, W ^b   Roth, Christopher ^c   Bruinsma, Sean ^d   Hunton, Donald E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA JETS; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHALLENGING MINISATELLITE PAYLOADS; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM SATELLITES; DOWN-WELLING; EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; EQUATORIAL PLASMA BUBBLE; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; NEUTRAL DEPLETION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PLANAR LANGMUIR PROBES; PLASMA TEMPERATURE; SOLAR MINIMA; SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALIES;

PLASMAS;

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA; PROBE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 72149128897     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039423     Document Type: Article

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