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Topside signature of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances
E. S. Miller
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, USA
H. Kil
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, USA
J. J. Makela
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
R. A. Heelis
W. B. Hansen Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA
E. R. Talaat
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, USA
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA
A. Gross
Sunspots Bonaire, Bonaire
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