Day-to-day variability in equatorial spread F: Is there some physics missing?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Tsunoda, Roland T ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EQUATORIAL SPREAD F (ESF); PLASMA DRILL; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR (RT) INSTABILITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

ELECTRIC FIELD; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; MAPPING METHOD; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 33845609590     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025956     Document Type: Article

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