Analysis of a mid-latitude E-region LQP event observed during the Coqui 2 Campaign

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Urbina, Julio ^a   Kudeki, Erhan ^b   Franke, Steven J ^b   Zhou, Qihou ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADAR;

BRAGG SCALE DENSITY; GRADIENT-DRIFT INSTABILITY; QUASI-PERIODIC VARIATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BACKSCATTER; E REGION; ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE; RADAR IMAGERY;

EID: 4644276504     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020031     Document Type: Article

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