Multi-reflected echoes: Another ionogram signature of large-scale wave structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Tsunoda, Roland T ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E REGION;

DATA SETS; F LAYERS; IONOGRAM; IONOGRAMS; ISODENSITY; PLASMA STRUCTURES; WAVE STRUCTURES;

F REGION;

ATOLL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVE;

EID: 62749154326     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036221     Document Type: Article

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