W.: A statistical study of ion frictional heating observed by EISCAT, Ann

• Main Authors: J. A. Davies, M. Lester, I. W. Mccrea
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: The ''Y''; EISCAT
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.371.8488; http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/31/64/97/PDF/angeo-15-1399-1997.pdf

Abstract. Results of a statistical survey of F-region ion frictional heating are presented, a survey which is based on over 4000 h of common programme observations taken by the European incoherent scatter (EISCAT) UHF radar facility. The criterion adopted in this study for the identi®cation of ion f...