A height-dependent climatological model of the equatorial ionospheric zonal plasma drifts (EZDrifts): Description and application to an analysis of the longitudinal variations of the zonal drifts | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 13, 2023


Article Number		8
Number of page(s)		11
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2023006
Published online		06 April 2023

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