Yearly variations in the low-latitude topside ionosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 789-798

  Bailey, G J ^a   Su, Y Z ^a   Oyama, K I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (equatorial ionosphere; ionosphere atmosphere interactions; plasma temperature and density)

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844287090     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0789-0     Document Type: Article

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