The ionosphere under extremely prolonged low solar activity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Libo ^a,b   Chen, Yiding ^a   Le, Huijun ^a   Kurkin, Vladimir I ^c   Polekh, Nelya M ^c   Lee, Chien Chih ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 79954501065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016296     Document Type: Article

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