Daytime vertical and zonal velocities from 150-km echoes: Their relevance to F-region dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Chau, Jorge L ^a   Woodman, Ronald F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

2411 Ionosphere: Electric fields (2712); 2415 Ionosphere: Equatorial ionosphere; 2427 Ionosphere: Ionosphere atmosphere interactions (0335); 2437 Ionosphere: Ionospheric dynamics; 2439 Ionosphere: Ionospheric irregularities

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; RADAR; SCATTERING; F REGION;

REGION ALTITUDES; VERTICAL DOPPLER VELOCITIES;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY;

IONOSPHERE;

DOPPLER VELOCITY; DRIFT VELOCITIES; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

EID: 9744267402     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020800     Document Type: Article

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