An inter-hemispheric, statistical study of nightside spectral width distributions from coherent HF scatter radars

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1921-1934

  Woodfield, E E ^a   Hosokawa, K ^b   Milan, S E ^a   Sato, N ^c   Lester, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; Ionospheric irregularities)

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; IONOSPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036970645     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-20-1921-2002     Document Type: Article

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