On the response of fading times of upper homosphere radar echoes to solar and geomagnetic disturbances

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 699-705

  Hall, Chris M ^a   Nozawa, S ^b   Meek, C E ^c   Manson, A H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0038733685     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351721     Document Type: Article

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