First satellite-imaging observation of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances by FORMOSAT-2/ISUAL

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Adachi, Toru ^a,b   Otsuka, Yuichi ^c   Yamaoka, Masashi ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^a   Shiokawa, Kazuo ^c   Chen, Alfred B ^d   Hsu, Rue Ron ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

AIRGLOW STRUCTURES; ALL-SKY IMAGER; AUSTRALIA; GLOBAL LEVELS; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; MEDIUM-SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE;

SATELLITES;

AIRGLOW; ALTITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORMOSAT-2; IONOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VELOCITY; WAVELENGTH;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79951900931     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046268     Document Type: Article

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