Day-to-day variability of the equatorial ionization anomaly and scintillations at dusk observed by GUVI and modeling by SAMI3

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Basu, Su ^b   Basu, S ^a   Huba, J ^d   Krall, J ^d   McDonald, S E ^d   Makela, J J ^e   Miller, E S ^e   Ray, S ^f   Groves, K ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

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EID: 67650145835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013899     Document Type: Article

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