Electron density distribution in the plasmasphere in conjunction with IRI model, deduced from Akebono wave data

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 279-288

  Kimura, I ^a   Hikuma, A ^a   Kasahara, Y ^a   Oya, H ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006145009     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(95)00937-X     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. A. Sawada, T. Nobata, Y. Kishi, and I. Kimura, Electron density profile in the magnetosphere deduced from in situ electron density and wave normal directions of Omega signals observed by the Akebono (EXOS-D) satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 98#A7, 11267 (1993).
2. I. Kimura, A. Hikuma, Y. Kasahara, A. Sawada, M. Kikuchi, and H. Oya, Determination of electron density distributions in the plasmasphere by using wave data observed by Akebono satellite, Adv. Space Res., 15#2, (2)103 (1995).
3. J. J. Angerami and J. D. Thomas, Studies of planetary atmospheres, 1. The distribution of electrons and ions in the Earth's exosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 69, 4537 (1964).
4. Strangeways, H. J., A model for the electron temperature variation along geomagnetic field lines and its effect on electron density profiles and VLF ray paths, J. Atmosph. Terr. Phys., 48. 471 (1986).
5. I. Kimura, T. Matsuo, M. Tsuda, and K. Yamauchi, Three dimensional ray tracing of whistler mode waves in a non-dipolar magnetophsere, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 37, 945 (1985).
6. D. Bilitza, International Reference Ionosphere 1990, National Space Science Data Center, Nov. (1990).
7. M. Rycroft and I. R. Jones, Modelling the plasmasphere for the international reference ionosphere, Adv. Space Res. 5 #10, 21 (1985).
8. M. Rycroft and I. R. Jones, A suggested model for the IRI plasmaspheric distribution, Adv. Space Res. 7 #6, 13 (1987).