Concurrent study of bottomside spread F and plasma bubble events in the equatorial ionosphere during solar maximum using digisonde and ROCSAT-1

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3473-3480

  Lee, C C ^a   Su, S Y ^b   Reinisch, B W ^c  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Ionospheric irregularities; Equatorial ionosphere)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 30844446012     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-3473-2005     Document Type: Article

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