Interferometry investigations of VHF backscatter from plasma irregularity patches in the nighttime E region using the Chung-Li radar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A2, 1999, Pages 2621-2631

  Chu, Yen Hsyang ^a   Wang, Chien Ya ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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