The Ionospheric Bubble Index deduced from magnetic field and plasma observations onboard Swarm

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1333-1344

  Park, Jaeheung ^a   Noja, Max ^a   Stolle, Claudia ^a,b   Lühr, Hermann ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Equatorial ionosphere; Plasma irregularity; Topside ionosphere

Indexed keywords

CHAMP; F REGION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PLASMA; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 84897583825     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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