Yearly variations of global plasma densities in the topside ionosphere at middle and low latitudes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Libo ^a   Zhao, Biqiang ^a   Wan, Weixing ^a   Venkartraman, S ^b   Zhang, Man Lian ^a   Yue, X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 34548595803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012283     Document Type: Article

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