Equatorial and low latitude thermospheric winds: Measured quiet time variations with season and solar flux from 1980 to 1990

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A8, 1999, Pages 17091-17106

  Biondi, M A ^a   Sazykin, S Y ^b   Fejer, B G ^b   Meriwether, J W ^c   Fesen, C G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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