Responses of equatorial anomaly to the October-November 2003 superstorms

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 693-706

  Zhao, B ^a,b,c   Wan, W ^a   Liu, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Equatorial ionosphere; Ionosphere magnetosphere interactions; Ionospheric disturbances)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 18744397528     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-693-2005     Document Type: Article

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