A global climatology for equatorial plasma bubbles in the topside ionosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-172

  Gentile, L C ^a   Burke, W J ^b   Rich, F J ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PLASMA;

EID: 33751102635     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-163-2006     Document Type: Article

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