Nighttime medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances at low geomagnetic latitudes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Makela, J J ^a   Miller, E S ^b   Talaat, E R ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELECTRON DENSITIES; EQUATORIAL ANOMALY; MAGNETIC EQUATOR; MAGNETIC LATITUDE; MEDIUM-SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; NARROW BANDS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOLAR FLUX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

ANOMALY; DISTURBANCE; ELECTRON; F REGION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LATITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 78650871907     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045922     Document Type: Article

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