Longitudinal and seasonal variations in nighttime plasma temperatures in the equatorial topside ionosphere during solar maximum

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A2, 1999, Pages 2603-2611

  Venkatraman, Sarita ^a   Heelis, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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