Relationship between the ionospheric eastward electric field and the equatorial electrojet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Alken, Patrick ^a   Maus, Stefan ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

electrojet; instabilities; ionosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; STABILITY;

ELECTRODYNAMIC MODELING; ELECTROJET; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET; EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; GRADIENT-DRIFT INSTABILITY; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELDS; TWO STREAM INSTABILITY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 84856045309     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041989     Document Type: Article

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