Seismo-ionospheric anomalies of the GPS-TEC appear before the 12 May 2008 magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3579-3587

  Jhuang, Hau Kun ^a   Ho, Yi Ying ^a   Kakinami, Yoshihiro ^a   Liu, Jann Yenq ^a   Oyama, Ko Ichiro ^b   Parrot, Michel ^c   Hattori, Katsumi ^d   Nishihashi, Masahide ^d   Zhang, Donghe ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LPCE CNRS   (France)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE;

CONJUGATE POINTS; EPICENTRE; GLOBAL IONOSPHERE MAPS; GPS TEC; IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES; SPACE WEATHER; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON DENSITY; GPS; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 77954839265     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161003727796     Document Type: Article

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