Lensing from small-scale travelling ionospheric disturbances observed using LOFAR | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 12, 2022


Article Number		34
Number of page(s)		13
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2022030
Published online		12 October 2022

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