Magnetospherically reflected, specularly reflected, and backscattered whistler mode radio-sounder echoes observed on the IMAGE satellite: 2. Sounding of electron density, ion effective mass (meff), ion composition (H+, He+, O+), and density irregularities along the geomagnetic field line

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Sonwalkar, V S ^a   Reddy, A ^a   Carpenter, D L ^b  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80855139352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA016760     Document Type: Article

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