The SEEK (Sporadic-E Experiment over Kyushu) Campaign

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1761-1764

  Fukao, Shoichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^a   Tsunoda, Roland T ^b   Hayakawa, Hajime ^c   Mukai, Toshifumi ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E REGION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA THEORY; RADAR; ROCKETS; SHEAR FLOW; BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSORS; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; FIELD-ALIGNED IRREGULARITIES; GROUND BASED SENSORS; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; QUASI-PERIODIC; RADAR BACKSCATTER; ROCKET RANGE; SMALL SCALE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; E REGION;

QUASI PERIODIC (QP) ECHOES; QUASI PERIODIC (QP) RADAR BACKSCATTERING; TRANSPORTABLE RADARS;

EID: 0032098699     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl00932     Document Type: Article

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