Nowcasting, forecasting and warning for ionospheric propagation: Tools and methods

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3 SUPPL., 2004, Pages 957-983

  Stamper, Richard ^a   Belehaki, Anna ^b   Burešová, Dalia ^c   Cander, Ljiljana R ^a   Kutiev, Ivan ^d   Pietrella, Marco ^e   Stanisławska, Iwona ^f   Stankov, Stanimir ^g   Tsagouri, Ioanna ^b   Tulunay, Yurdanur K ^h   Zolesi, Bruno ^e  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC STORM; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 8844244868     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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