Intra-annual variation of wave number 4 structure of vertical ExB drifts in the equatorial ionosphere seen from ROCSAT-I

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ren, Zhipeng ^a,b,c   Wan, Weixing ^c   Liu, Libo ^c   Xiong, Jiangang ^c  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 68749119795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014060     Document Type: Article

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