Characteristics of the E- and F-region field-aligned irregularities in middle latitudes: Initial results obtained from the Daejeon 40.8 MHz VHF radar in South Korea

Copyright © The Korean Space Science Society http://janss.kr plSSN: 2093-5587 elSSN: 2093-1409 Received Jan 27, 2014 Revised Feb 18, 2014 Accepted Feb 19, 2014 †Corresponding Author E-mail: yskwak@kasi.re.kr Tel: +82-42-865-2039, Fax: +82-42-865-3272 This is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Research Paper J. Astron. Space Sci. 31(1), 15-23 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.5140/JASS.2014.31.1.15

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