Improvement of HF coherent radar line-of-sight velocities by estimating the refractive index in the scattering volume using radar frequency shifting

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gillies, R G ^a   Hussey, G C ^a   Sofko, G J ^a   Ponomarenko, P V ^a   McWilliams, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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EID: 78751502688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016043     Document Type: Article

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