Radio Wave Scintillations in the Ionosphere

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 324-360

  Yeh, Kung Chie ^a   Liu, Chao Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - PROPAGATION IN IONOSPHERE;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0020116394     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1982.12313     Document Type: Article

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