Probing discrete auroral arcs by ionospheric tomography

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 574-582

  Moen, J ^a   Berry, S T ^b   Kersley, L ^b   Lybekk, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Auroral ionosphere); Magnetospheric physics (Auroral phenomena); Radio science (Ionospheric physics)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542399112     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-0574-z     Document Type: Article

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