Impact of solar proton events on noctilucent clouds

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 14-15, 2011, Pages 2073-2081

  Rahpoe, Nabiz ^a   von Savigny, Christian ^a   Robert, Charles E ^a,c   DeLand, Matthew T ^b   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Noctilucent clouds; Polar mesospheric clouds; SBUV; Solar proton events; Summer mesopause

Indexed keywords

NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS; SBUV; SOLAR PROTON EVENTS; SUMMER MESOPAUSE;

CLOUDS; RADIO INTERFERENCE; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PROTONS;

EID: 80052168195     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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