Response of the equatorial and low-latitude ionosphere in the Indian sector to the geomagnetic storms of January 2005

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Sreeja, V ^a   Devasia, C V ^a   Ravindran, Sudha ^a   Pant, Tarun Kumar ^a   Sridharan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

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EID: 70349436001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014179     Document Type: Article

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