Quasi-10&thinsp;d wave modulation of an equatorial ionization anomaly during the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric warming of 2002

Mo, Xiaohua; Zhang, Donghe

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Quasi-10 d wave modulation of an equatorial ionization anomaly during the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric warming of 2002

Xiaohua Mo and Donghe Zhang

Xiaohua Mo

College of Science, Key Laboratory for Ionospheric Observation and Simulation, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning, 530006, China

Donghe Zhang

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zhangdh@pku.edu.cn

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Department of Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

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