Effects of solar activity variations on adiabatic heating and cooling effects in the nighttime equatorial topside ionosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A8, 1999, Pages 17117-17126

  Venkatraman, Sarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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