Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances observed with the SuperDARN Hokkaido radar, all-sky imager, and GPS network and their relation to concurrent sporadic E irregularities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ogawa, T ^a,b   Nishitani, N ^a   Otsuka, Y ^a   Shiokawa, K ^a   Tsugawa, T ^b   Hosokawa, K ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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EID: 67649101559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013893     Document Type: Article

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