Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1095-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1095-2014
Research article
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29 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2014

Longitudinal hotspots in the mesospheric OH variations due to energetic electron precipitation

M. E. Andersson, P. T. Verronen, C. J. Rodger, M. A. Clilverd, and S. Wang

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