Velocities of auroral coherent echoes at 12 and 144 MHz

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1647-1661

  Koustov, A V ^a,c   Danskin, D W ^a   Uspensky, M V ^b,d   Ogawa, T ^c   Janhunen, P ^b   Nishitani, N ^c   Nozawa, S ^c   Lester, M ^e   Milan, S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MURMANSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionospheric irregularities; plasma waves and instabilities; auroral ionosphere)

Indexed keywords

AURORA; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0036826127     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-20-1647-2002     Document Type: Article

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