Planetary wave oscillations in sporadic E layer occurrence at Wuhan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 647-652

  Zuo, Xiaomin ^a,b,c,d   Wan, Weixing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric tides; Planetary waves; PW modulation of tides; Sporadic E layers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; E REGION; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; PLANETARY WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; WUHAN;

EID: 48849108400     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353128     Document Type: Article

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