Quasi-biennial and decadal variability obtained from long-term measurements of nighttime radio wave reflection heights over Central Europe

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1701-1706

  Kurschner D ^a   Jacobi, Ch ^b  

^a Institute of Geophysics and Geology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; RADIO WAVES; REFLECTION; TRANSMITTERS;

SOLAR CYCLES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOLAR CYCLE; WAVE REFLECTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 9144269704     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)90465-0     Document Type: Article

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