Solar activity variations of equivalent winds derived from global ionosonde data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A12, 2004, Pages

  Liu, Libo ^a   Luan, Xiaoli ^b,c   Wan, Weixing ^a   Lei, Jiuhou ^b,c   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

Climatology; Ionosphere; Solar activity variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750151641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010574     Document Type: Article

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