Electrostatic fields in dust devils: An analog to Mars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2942-2949

  Jackson, Telana L ^a   Farrell, William M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Electric field measurements; Meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; DUST DEVILS; DUST STORM; ELECTRICAL NATURE; MARTIAN DUST; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOJAVE DESERT; TEST INSTRUMENTS;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMETERS; METEOROLOGY; STORMS;

DUST;

EID: 80051703017     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.875785     Document Type: Article

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