Fabry-Perot Spectrometer observations of the auroral oval/polar cap boundary above Mawson, Antarctica

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 1973-1988

  Innis, J L ^a   Greet, P A ^a,b   Dyson, P L ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0000042456     PISSN: 00219169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9169(96)00007-4     Document Type: Article

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