Semidiurnal behavior of quasi-periodic echoes in the mid-latitude Es region observed with the Chung-Li VHF radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2621-2624

  Pan, C J ^a   Tsunoda, Roland T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GRAVITY WAVES; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR REFLECTION; WIND EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; QUASI PERIODIC ECHOES; SEMIDIURNAL CHARACTERISTICS; LONG-PERIOD WAVES; MIDLATITUDES; NEUTRAL WINDS; QUASI-PERIODIC; SIGN REVERSAL; SPORADIC E; TIME-PERIODS;

GEOPHYSICS; E REGION;

PLANETARY WAVE;

EID: 0033401506     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900562     Document Type: Article

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