New incoherent scatter diagnostic methods for the heated D-region ionosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2273-2279

  Kero, A ^a   Vierinen, J ^a   Enell, C F ^a   Virtanen, I ^b   Turunen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; IONOSPHERE; RADAR; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 49149128927     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-2273-2008     Document Type: Article

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