Ionospheric climatology and variability from long-term and multiple incoherent scatter radar observations: Variability

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1525-1537

  Zhang, S R ^a   Holt, J M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRON DENSITY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; SCATTERING; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MILLSTONE HILL; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT SANTIN; UNITED STATES; VERMONT; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45149091610     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-1525-2008     Document Type: Article

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