Thermospheric meridional winds as deduced from ionosonde chain at low and equatorial latitudes and their connection with midnight temperature maximum

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Maruyama, Takashi ^a   Saito, Susumu ^a   Kawamura, Masabumi ^a   Nozaki, Kenro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 56749185621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013031     Document Type: Article

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