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Electron temperatures determined by tristatic plasma‐line observations with the EISCAT UHF incoherent scatter radar
Author(s) -
Kirkwood S.,
Björnå N.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/92gl00523
Subject(s) - incoherent scatter , radar , plasma , electron temperature , physics , line (geometry) , electron density , ultra high frequency , electron , computational physics , ionosphere , optics , geophysics , telecommunications , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer science
Tristatic observations of photoelectron‐enhanced plasma‐lines with the EISCAT UHF incoherent scatter radar are presented. It is shown that electron temperatures can be derived from these measurements with a time resolution of the order of a minute and a statistical accuracy of 50–100 K.