A tomographic study of seasonal variations of the equatorial anomaly in the Asian Sector

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 337-348

  Tsai, Wei Hsiung ^a   Huang, Lin Fu ^a   Chen, Mei Feng ^a   Liu, Chao Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computerized Ionospheric Tomography (CIT); Equatorial anomaly region; Low Latitude Ionospheric Tomography Network (LITN); Total Eletron Content (TEC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040362702     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2000.11.1.337(COSMIC)     Document Type: Article

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