Sporadic meteor sources as observed by the Jicamarca high-power large-aperture VHF radar

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 162-174

  Chau, Jorge L ^a   Woodman, Ronald F ^a   Galindo, Freddy ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Ionospheres; Meteors; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147133783     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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