Simulation studies on the tomographic reconstruction of the equatorial and low-latitute ionosphere in the context of the Indian tomography experiment: CRABEX

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3445-3460

  Thampi, S V ^a   Pant, T K ^a   Ravindran, S ^a   Devasia, C V ^a   Sridharan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Ionospheric (equatorial ionosphere; ionospheric irregularities; instruments and techniques)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 10644230062     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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