Theoretical relationship between maximum value of the post-sunset drift velocity and peak-to-valley ratio of anomaly TEC

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Basu, B ^a   Retterer, J M ^a   de La Beaujardiere O ^a   Valladares, C E ^b   Kudeki, E ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Nighttime equatorial anomaly; Post sunset drift velocity; Scintillation; TEC

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR;

ELECTRON DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; EQUATORIAL SCINTILLATION; PEAK-TO-VALLEY RATIO;

GEOPHYSICS;

ANOMALY; ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 18144438900     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018725     Document Type: Article

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