The role of post-sunset vertical drifts at the equator in predicting the onset of VHF scintillations during high and low sunspot activity years

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1609-1616

  Tulasi Ram, S ^a   Rama Rao, P V S ^a   Niranjan, K ^a   Prasad, D S V V D ^a   Sridharan, R ^b   Devasia, C V ^b   Ravindran, S ^b  

^a ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; PREDICTION; SUNSPOT;

EID: 33751109956     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1609-2006     Document Type: Article

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