Enhanced lunar semidiurnal equatorial vertical plasma drifts during sudden stratospheric warmings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Fejer, B G ^a   Tracy, B D ^a   Olson, M E ^a   Chau, J L ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MOON; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS;

DENSITY VARIATIONS; IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTANCE; IONOSPHERIC MODEL; LOCAL TIME; LOW LATITUDES; PLASMA DRIFTS; SOLAR FLUX; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING;

WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EQUATORIAL WAVE; IONOSPHERE; LUNAR CYCLE; PERTURBATION; PLASMA; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SOLAR CYCLE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 81155124355     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049788     Document Type: Article

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