On the spectrum of mid-latitude sporadic-E irregularities

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1283-1292

  Kyzyurov, Yu V ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionospheric irregularities; midlatitude ionosphere); Space plasma physics (turbulence)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034359042     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005850000259     Document Type: Article

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