The Brazil/Guará equatorial spread F campaign: Results of the large scale measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1691-1694

  LaBelle, J ^a   Jahn, J M ^a   Pfaff, R F ^b   Swartz, W E ^c   Sobral, J H A ^d   Abdu, M A ^d   Muralikrishna, P ^d   DePaula, E R ^d  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; F REGION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR MEASUREMENT; ROCKETS; TURBULENCE;

BRAZIL; COHERENT BACKSCATTER RADAR; GUARA CAMPAIGN EQUATORIAL SPREAD F ROCKET; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

GEOPHYSICS; RADAR;

AMPLITUDE DIFFERENCE; DECAY TIME CONSTANT; DENSITY STRUCTURES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EQUATORIAL SPREAD F; LARGE-SCALE MEASUREMENT; PLASMA IRREGULARITIES; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA;

EID: 0031176907     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00818     Document Type: Article

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