Quasi-periodic radar echoes from midlatitude sporadic E and role of the 5-day planetary wave

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 951-954

  Tsunoda, Roland T ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^b   Igarashi, Kiyoshi ^c   Hocke, Klemens ^c   Fukao, Shoichiro ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; E REGION; RADAR; RADAR REFLECTION;

MAGNETIC ASPECT SENSITIVE RADAR ECHOES; MIDLATITUDE SPORADIC E REGION; PLANETARY WAVES; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MEASUREMENTS OF; NEUTRAL WIND MEASUREMENTS; PARTIAL REFLECTION; QUASI-PERIODIC; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; WIND DIRECTIONS;

E REGION; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

E REGION; PLANETARY WAVE; RADAR ECHO; WIND VECTOR;

EID: 0032051174     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00663     Document Type: Article

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