Ionospheric anomalies detected by ground-based GPS before the Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, China

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 959-966

  Yiyan, Zhou ^a,b   Yun, Wu ^a   Xuejun, Qiao ^a   Xunxie, Zhang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake; GPS; Ionospheric anomalies; VTEC

Indexed keywords

GPS; GROUND BASED; IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES; IONOSPHERIC VARIATIONS; PERTURBED STATE; SPATIAL SIZE; VERTICAL TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENTS; VTEC; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 67349239339     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.03.024     Document Type: Article

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