Climatology of midlatitude ionospheric disturbances from the very large array low-frequency sky survey

Radio Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Helmboldt, J F ^a   Lane, W M ^a   Cotton, W D ^b  

^a Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCTUATION SPECTRA; IMAGING PROCESS; INTERFEROMETRIC DATA; IONOSPHERIC ACTIVITY; IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION; IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; LOW FREQUENCY; MIDLATITUDES; MULTISCALES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECTRAL POWER; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME OF DAY; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; TURBULENT ACTIVITY; VERY LARGE ARRAYS;

CLIMATOLOGY; E REGION; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84867630118     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012RS005025     Document Type: Article

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