Studies of medium scale travelling ionospheric disturbances using TIGER SuperDARN radar sea echo observations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4077-4088

  He, L S ^a,b   Dyson, P L ^a   Parkinson, M L ^a   Wan, W ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionospheric disturbances; wave propagation; ionospheric irregularities; signal processing)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DIURNAL VARIATION; IONOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 13244261144     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-4077-2004     Document Type: Article

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