Ionospheric measurements of relative coronal brightness during the total solar eclipses of 11 August, 1999 and 9 July, 1945

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 182-190

  Davis, C J ^a   Lockwood, M ^a   Bell, S A ^a   Smith, J A ^a   Clarke, E M ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (solar radiation and cosmic ray effects); Radio science (ionospheric physics); Solar physics, astrophysics, and astronomy (corona and transition region)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034412011     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0182-z     Document Type: Article

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