Northeastward motion of nighttime medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances at middle latitudes observed by an airglow imager

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Shiokawa, K ^a   Otsuka, Y ^a   Nishitani, N ^a,b   Ogawa, T ^a,b   Tsugawa, T ^b   Maruyama, T ^b   Smirnov, S E ^c   Bychkov, V V ^c   Shevtsov, B M ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF COSMOPHYSICAL RESEARCH AND RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 61349099415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013417     Document Type: Article

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