Day-to-day variability of geomagnetic hourly amplitudes at low latitudes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 484-500

  Okeke, F N ^a   Onwumechili, C Agodi ^b   Rabiu, Babatunde A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET; GEOMAGNETIC VARIATION;

EID: 0031687016     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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