On the enigma of day-to-day variability in equatorial spread F

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Tsunoda, Roland T ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL WAVES; SENSORS; STABILITY;

EQUATORIAL SPREAD F (ESF); LARGE SCALE WAVE STRUCTURE (LSWS); PLASMA BUBBLES; ZONAL DRIFT;

PLASMA DENSITY;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 22944465084     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022512     Document Type: Article

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