@InProceedings{Muralikrishna:2006:RoObNi,
               author = "Muralikrishna, Polinaya",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Rocket observations of night time equatorial F-region plasma 
                         irregularities from Brazil",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2006",
         organization = "Committe on Space Research, 36. (COSPAR).",
             abstract = "Sounding rockets carrying plasma diagnostic experiments were 
                         launched from the Brazilian rocket launching stations in Natal 
                         (5.9°S, 35.2°W Geog. Lat.) and Alcantara (2.31°S, 44.4°W Geog. 
                         Lat.) to measure the height profiles of electron density, electron 
                         temperature and the ambient electric field. High frequency 
                         Capacitance probes were used to measure the height profiles of the 
                         electron density and Langmuir probes were used to measure the 
                         electron density, temperature and the spatial structures of plasma 
                         irregularities. On one occasion an electric field double probe was 
                         used to measure the electric field fluctuations associated with 
                         the F-region plasma irregularities. A brief study of the 
                         characteristic features of small-scale electron density and 
                         electric field fluctuations under different ionospheric conditions 
                         is presented here. In the presence of large-scale plasma bubbles 
                         in the F-region, electron density fluctuations are accompanied by 
                         abnormal electron temperature variations. In the nighttime Fregion 
                         without large scale plasma bubbles, though electron density 
                         irregularities are observed, the electron temperature and electric 
                         field variations donot exhibit abnormal features. A comparative 
                         study of the k-spectra of the electron density and electric field 
                         fluctuations is made with the specific objective of identifying 
                         the origin of the irregularities in these parameters.",
  conference-location = "Beijing, China",
      conference-year = "2006-07-16",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "03 maio 2024"
}