Collisional Rayleigh-Taylor instability and shear-flow in equatorial spread-F plasma

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1153-1157

  Chakrabarti, N ^a   Lakhina, G S ^b  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionospheric irregularities, equatorial ionosphere, plasma waves and instabilities

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0037633226     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-1153-2003     Document Type: Article

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