Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System observational support for the equatorial e × B drift velocities associated with the four-cell tidal structures

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Araujo Pradere, Eduardo A ^a,b   Anderson, David N ^a,b   Fedrizzi, Mariangel ^a,b   Stoneback, Russell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIFT VELOCITIES; EASTERN PACIFIC; ELECTRON DENSITIES; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD LINES; ION VELOCITY; IONOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; LOCAL TIME; MAGNETIC EQUATOR; MERIDIONAL PLANES; THREE DIMENSIONS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; WESTERN PACIFIC;

F REGION; GEOMAGNETISM; SENSORS; WIND EFFECTS;

VELOCITY;

EID: 79960657834     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RS004557     Document Type: Article

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