A study of tidal and planetary wave periodicities present in midlatitude sporadic E layers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A2, 2004, Pages

  Haldoupis, Christos ^a   Pancheva, Dora ^b   Mitchell, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionosphere atmosphere interactions; Metallic ion layers; Midlatitude ionosphere; Nonlinear interactions; Waves and tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144443867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010253     Document Type: Article

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