Characteristics of night-time absorption spike events

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1887-1904

  Aminaei, A ^a   Honary, F ^a   Kavanagh, A J ^a   Spanswick, E ^b   Viljanen, A ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY; NOISE; RADIO WAVE; STORM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; KILPISJARVI; LAPPI [FINLAND]; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33751114400     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1887-2006     Document Type: Article

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