Scintillation-producing Fresnel-scale irregularities associated with the regions of steepest TEC gradients adjacent to the equatorial ionization anomaly

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Muella, M T A H ^a,b   Kherani, E A ^a   De Paula, E R ^a   Cerruti, A P ^b   Kintner, P M ^b   Kantor, I J ^a   Mitchell, C N ^c   Batista, I S ^a   Abdu, M A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77949434152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014788     Document Type: Article

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