First tomographic observations of the Midlatitude Summer Nighttime Anomaly over Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Thampi, Smitha V ^a   Lin, Charles ^b   Liu, Huixin ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 72649103273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014439     Document Type: Article

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