Observations of day-to-day variability in precursor signatures to equatorial F-region plasma depletions

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1053-1063

  Fagundes, P R ^a   Sahai, Y ^b   Batista, I S ^b   Abdu, M A ^b   Bittencourt, J A ^b   Takahashi, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (airglow and aurora); Ionosphere (equatorial ionosphere; ionospheric irregularities)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033418091     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-1053-x     Document Type: Article

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