Diurnal and annual variations of meteor rates at the arctic circle

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1355-1363

  Singer, W ^a   von Zahn, U ^a   Weiss J ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

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EID: 4744369749     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-4-1355-2004     Document Type: Article

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