Sporadic-E associated with the Leonid meteor shower event of November 1998 over low and equatorial latitudes

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-69

  Chandra, H ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Devasia, C V ^b   Subbarao, K S V ^b   Sridharan, R ^b   Sastri, J H ^c   Rao, J V S V ^c  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (equatorial ionosphere); Radio science (ionospheric physics)

Indexed keywords

EID: 5944224254     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-59-2001     Document Type: Article

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