Meridional equatorial electrojet current in the American sector

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 220-230

  Rastogi, R G ^a,b  

^a GUJARAT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism and paleomagnetism (dynamo theories); Ionosphere (equatorial ionosphere; ionosphere disturbances)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033478194     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0220-4     Document Type: Article

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