Variations of total electron content during geomagnetic disturbances: A model/observation comparison

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 253-256

  Lu, G ^a,c   Pi, X ^b   Richmond, A D ^a,c   Roble, R G ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; E REGION; F REGION; GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MAGNETOSPHERE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; IONOSPHERE;

TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; GLOBAL IONOSPHERIC MAPS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; HEMI-SPHERIC ASYMMETRIES; MAGNETIC LATITUDE; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; WORLD-WIDE NETWORKS;

EID: 0031997316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03778     Document Type: Article

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