Day-to-day changes in the latitudes of the foci of the Sq current system and their relation to equatorial electrojet strength

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 110, Issue A10, 2005, Pages

  Stening, Robert ^a   Reztsova, Tamara ^a   Minh, Le Huy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

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EID: 33845797397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011219     Document Type: Article

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