Midnight latitude-altitude distribution of 630 nm airglow in the Asian sector measured with FORMOSAT-2/ISUAL

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Adachi, Toru ^a,b   Yamaoka, Masashi ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^a   Otsuka, Yuichi ^c   Liu, Huixin ^a   Hsiao, Chun Chieh ^d   Chen, Alfred B ^e   Hsu, Rue Ron ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 77957597983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA015147     Document Type: Article

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