A new approach for monitoring the 27-day solar rotation using VLF radio signals on the Earths surface

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Reuveni, Yuval ^a   Price, Colin ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 72649088265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014364     Document Type: Article

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