Coordinated observations of nighttime medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances in 630-nm airglow and HF radar echoes at midlatitudes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Suzuki, S ^a,b   Hosokawa, K ^a   Otsuka, Y ^c   Shiokawa, K ^c   Ogawa, T ^d   Nishitani, N ^c   Shibata, T F ^a   Koustov, A V ^e   Shevtsov, B M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE OF COSMOPHYSICAL RESEARCH AND RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 72649087501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013963     Document Type: Article

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