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Dynamo Currents and Conductivities in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

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  1. S. F. SINGER: On leave from the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, Md.

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  1. Office of Naval Research, U.S. Embassy, Londn

    S. F. SINGER

  2. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md.

    E. MAPLE

  3. Naval Civil Engineering Research Lab., Port Hueneme, Calif.

    W. A. BOWEN JUN.

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SINGER, S., MAPLE, E. & BOWEN, W. Dynamo Currents and Conductivities in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere. Nature 170, 1093–1094 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/1701093a0

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