Statistical study of nighttime medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances using midlatitude airglow images

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A1, 2003, Pages

  Shiokawa, K ^a   Ihara, C ^a,b   Otsuka, Y ^a   Ogawa, T ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

630.0 nm; Airglow imaging; Medium scale traveling ionospheric disturbance; MSTID

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844563810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009491     Document Type: Article

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