Ionospheric potential as a proxy index for global temperature

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-314

  Markson, Ralph ^a   Price, Colin ^b  

^a Airborne Research Associates   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ionospheric potential; Satellite; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0032718438     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8095(99)00015-0     Document Type: Article

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