Redistribution of the Stormtime Ionosphere and the Formation of a Plasmaspheric Bulge

Inner Magnetosphere Interactions: New Perspectives from Imaging

Volumn 159, Issue , 2013, Pages 277-289

  Foster, John C ^a   Coster, Anthea J ^a   Erickson, Philip J ^a   Rideout, William ^a   Rich, Frederick J ^b   Immel, Thomas J ^c   Sandel, Bill R ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging systems in astronomy; Magnetoshpere Remote sensing images

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EROSION; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

DISTURBANCE ELECTRIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; PLASMASPHERE BOUNDARY LAYER; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SOUTH ATLANTIC MAGNETIC ANOMALY; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84953372192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/159GM21     Document Type: Chapter

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