Seasonal and latitudinal differences of the saturation effect between ionospheric NmF2 and solar activity indices

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Ma, Ruiping ^a   Xu, Jiyao ^a   Wang, Wenbin ^b   Yuan, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 72649105260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014353     Document Type: Article

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