Study on neutral wind contribution to the electrodynamics in the polar ionosphere using EISCAT CP-1 data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A7, 1998, Pages 14731-14739

  Fujii, Ryoichi ^a   Nozawa, Satonori ^a   Matuura, Nobuo ^a   Brekke, Asgeir ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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