Winter anomaly in NmF2 and TEC: when and where it can occur | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 8, 2018


Article Number		A45
Number of page(s)		14
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2018036
Published online		23 October 2018

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