Overview of nighttime ionospheric instabilities at low- and mid-latitudes: Coupling aspects resulting in structuring at the mesoscale

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 168, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 419-440

  Makela, Jonathan J ^a   Otsuka, Yuichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ionospheric irregularities; Low latitude ionosphere; Mid latitude ionosphere; Perkins instability; Rayleigh Taylor instability

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL PLASMA BUBBLE; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; IONOSPHERIC INSTABILITY; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; LINEAR THEORY; LOW GROWTH RATE; LOW LATITUDES; MEDIUM-SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; MESOSCALE; MID-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; NIGHT-TIME IONOSPHERE; PERKINS INSTABILITY; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES;

IONOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84863565378     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-011-9816-6     Document Type: Article

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