Climatological study of GPS total electron content variations caused by medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Kotake, N ^a   Otsuka, Y ^a   Tsugawa, T ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Saito, A ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33947178105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011418     Document Type: Article

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