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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-71-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Unexpected Southern Hemisphere ionospheric response to geomagnetic storm of 15 August 2015
Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
Dalia Buresova
Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
John Bosco Habarulema
South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Space Science,
Hermanus, South Africa
Ivan Nepomnyashchikh
Irkutsk State Technical University,
Irkutsk, Russia
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