Top-side ionosphere response to extreme solar events

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1469-1477

  Dmitriev, A V ^a,b   Yeh, H C ^a   Chao, J K ^a   Veselovsky, I S ^b,c   Su, S Y ^a   Fu, C C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; SOLAR RADIATION; X-RAY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751077047     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1469-2006     Document Type: Article

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