Seasonal behavior of equivalent winds over Wuhan derived from ionospheric data in 2000-2001

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1765-1770

  Liu, Libo ^a   Luan, Xiaoli ^a   Wan, Weixing ^a   Lei, Jiuhou ^a   Ning, Baiqi ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOSONDES; TIDES; WIND;

VERTICAL EQUIVALENT WINDS (VEW);

SPACE RESEARCH;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; IONOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0242519924     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)90474-1     Document Type: Article

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