Longitudinal variability of equatorial plasma bubbles observed by DMSP and ROCSAT-1

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A12, 2004, Pages

  Burke, W J ^a   Gentile, L C ^b   Huang, C Y ^b   Valladares, C E ^b   Su, S Y ^a,c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Equatorial plasma bubbles; Global ionosphere; Ionospheric scintillations; Seasonal longitudinal climatology; South atlantic anomaly

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845775271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010583     Document Type: Article

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