Did the January 2009 sudden stratospheric warming cool or warm the thermosphere?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Fuller Rowell, Tim ^a,b   Akmaev, Rashid ^b   Wu, Fei ^a,b   Fedrizzi, Mariangel ^a,b   Viereck, Rodney A ^b   Wang, Houjun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE;

ACCELEROMETER DATA; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; DENSITY VARIATIONS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES; INDEPENDENT MODEL; MAJOR EVENTS; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; PHYSICS-BASED; PLASMASPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; THERMOSPHERE DENSITY;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ACCELEROMETER; AIR SAMPLING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON DENSITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 80053277733     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048985     Document Type: Article

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