Further study on the solar activity variation of daytime N mF2

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Yiding ^a   Liu, Libo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 79251558407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA015847     Document Type: Article

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