Nighttime equatorial ionosphere: GPS scintillations and differential carrier phase fluctuations

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 209-224

  Bhattacharyya, A ^a,c   Beach, T L ^a   Basu, S ^a   Kintner, P M ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONOSPHERE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SCINTILLATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

DIFFERENTIAL CARRIER PHASE; NIGHTTIME EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SCINTILLATION;

DIFFERENTIAL CARRIER PHASE; INTENSITY SCINTILLATIONS; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; POWER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE RELATIONS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; TRANSPORT OF INTENSITY EQUATIONS;

EID: 0033889063     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002213     Document Type: Article

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