Global scale annual and semi-annual variations of daytime NmF2 in the high solar activity years

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 1691-1701

  Yu, Tao ^a,b   Wan, Weixing ^a   Liu, Libo ^a   Zhao, Biqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Atomic molecular ratio; Ionospheric annual and semi annual variation; Winter anomaly

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIZATION; NITROGEN;

IONSONDE NETWORK; WINTER ANOMALIES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

F REGION; IONOSPHERE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 10144230755     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2003.09.018     Document Type: Article

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