Annual/semiannual variation of the ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1928-1933

  Qian, Liying ^a   Burns, Alan G ^a   Solomon, Stanley C ^a   Wang, Wenbin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

annual semiannual variations; climatology; eddy diffusion; gravity waves; NmF2; neutral density and composition

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL/SEMIANNUAL VARIATIONS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; EDDY DIFFUSIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; SEMIANNUAL VARIATION; THERMOSPHERIC DENSITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITY WAVES; IONOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; EDDY; GRAVITY WAVE; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 84879994210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50448     Document Type: Article

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