Quiet Time Correlation Between Geomagnetic Field Variations and the Dynamics of the East African Equatorial Ionosphere
International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages: 6-18
Received: Feb. 22, 2017;
Accepted: Mar. 8, 2017;
Published: Mar. 17, 2017
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Omondi George Erick, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya
Baki Paul, Department of Physics and Space Science, Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
Ndinya Boniface, Department of Physics, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya
Omondi George Erick,
Baki Paul,
Ndinya Boniface,
Quiet Time Correlation Between Geomagnetic Field Variations and the Dynamics of the East African Equatorial Ionosphere, International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science.
Vol. 5, No. 1,
2017, pp. 6-18.
doi: 10.11648/j.ijass.20170501.12
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