RESULTS OF ROCKET MEASUREMENTS IN LOWER AURORAL INOSPHERE

被引:12
作者
FOLKESTAD, K
LANDMARK, B
SLOVLI, G
KANE, JA
机构
[1] Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller
[2] NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
来源
JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS | 1969年 / 31卷 / 06期
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10.1016/0021-9169(69)90161-5
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
The present work reports on rocket measurements of electrons, positive ions and particles with energies greater than 40 keV in the ionospheric D-region. From the particle data the height variation of the production of ion-pairs is derived. This in turn is combined with the electron and ion measurements in an attempt to estimate the numerical values of the ion-ion recombination coefficient αi. The results indicate a variation of αi from 10-6 to 10-7 cm sec-1 in the height range from 70 to 80 km. © 1969.
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