Equatorial and low latitude ionospheric effects during sudden stratospheric warming events : Ionospheric effects during SSW events

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 168, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 385-417

  Chau, Jorge L ^a   Goncharenko, Larisa P ^b   Fejer, Bela G ^c   Liu, Han Li ^d  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ionosphere coupling; Equatorial aeronomy; Low latitude electrodynamics; Stratospheric warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; EQUATORIAL AERONOMY; EXTERNAL SOURCES; ION-NEUTRAL COUPLING; IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; LOW LATITUDES; MIDLATITUDES; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; SOLAR MINIMA; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; WIND PERTURBATIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 84863603629     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-011-9797-5     Document Type: Article

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