An empirical model of ionospheric foE over Wuhan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-330

  Yue, Xinan ^a,b,c   Wan, Weixing ^a   Liu, Libo ^a   Ning, Baiqi ^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

f oE; Ionosphere; Model

Indexed keywords

E REGION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; MODEL; SOLAR CYCLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; WUHAN;

EID: 33645781535     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351928     Document Type: Article

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