Artificial plasma cave in the low-latitude ionosphere results from the radio occultation inversion of the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Liu, J Y ^a,b   Lin, C Y ^a   Lin, C H ^c   Tsai, H F ^d   Solomon, S C ^b   Sun, Y Y ^a   Lee, I T ^a   Schreiner, W S ^e   Kuo, Y H ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 77955191866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA015079     Document Type: Article

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