Evidence for planetary wave effects on midlatitude backscatter and sporadic E layer occurrence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1105-1108

  Voiculescu, Mirela ^a,c   Haldoupis, Christos ^a   Schlegel, Kristian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BACKSCATTERING; GEOMAGNETISM; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; IONOSPHERE;

DOPPLER SYSTEMS; GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES; IONOSONDE DATA; LARGE DATABASE; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; NEW COMPONENTS; PLANETARY WAVES; QUASI-PERIODIC VARIATIONS; MIDLATITUDE BACKSCATTER; PLANETARY WAVE EFFECTS;

E REGION;

PLANETARY WAVE;

EID: 0033560533     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900172     Document Type: Article

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