Interhemispheric plasma flows in the equatorial topside ionosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A8, 2000, Pages 18457-18464

  Venkatraman, Sarita ^a   Heelis, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 39449085216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000ja000012     Document Type: Article

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