Summer-winter hemispheric asymmetry of sudden increase in ionospheric total electron content induced by solar flares: A role of O/N2 ratio

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Tsugawa, T ^a,b   Sadakane, T ^a   Sato, J ^a   Otsuka, Y ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Shiokawa, K ^a   Saito, A ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33947534862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA011951     Document Type: Article

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