Using observations from the GPS and TOPEX satellites to investigate night-time TEC enhancements at mid-latitudes in the southern hemisphere during a low sunspot number period

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 371-391

  Horvath, I ^a   Essex, E A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0013225318     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(99)00101-7     Document Type: Article

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