The BEAN experiment - An EISCAT study of ion temperature anisotropies

• Published in: Annales Geophysicae
• Main Authors: McCrea, I. W., Jones, G. O. L., Lester, M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Kiruna; Sodankylä; EISCAT
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-995-0177-x; https://angeo.copernicus.org/articles/13/177/1995/

Results are presented from a novel EISCAT special programme, SP-UK-BEAN, intended for the direct measurement of the ion temperature anisotropy during ion frictional heating events in the high-latitude F-region. The experiment employs a geometry which provides three simultaneous estimates of the ion...