Simultaneous radar observations of the electrojet plasma irregularities at 18 and 54.95 MHz over Trivandrum, India

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A10, 2003, Pages

  Tiwari, Diwakar ^a   Patra, A K ^a,b   Viswanathan, K S ^a   Jyoti, N ^a   Devasia, C V ^a   Subbarao, K S V ^a   Sridharan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b National MST Radar Facility   (India)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Equatorial electrojet irregularities; Ionospheric irregularities; Plasma instabilities; Type 1 and type 2 spectra

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750220698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009698     Document Type: Article

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