Statistics of 150-km echoes over Jicamarca based on low-power VHF observations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1305-1310

  Chau, J L ^a   Kudeki, E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; RADAR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL DATA;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33751097476     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1305-2006     Document Type: Article

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