Seeding of equatorial plasma bubbles with electric fields from an E s-layer instability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Tsunoda, Roland T ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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EID: 34548309462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA012103     Document Type: Article

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