Real-time updating of the simplified ionospheric regional model for operational applications

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Zolesi, Bruno ^a   Belehaki, Anna ^b   Tsagouri, Ioanna ^b   Cander, Ljiljana R ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionospheric mapping; Ionospheric radiopropagation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MAPPING; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO STATIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WEIGH STATIONS;

IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES; IONOSPHERIC MAPPING; IONOSPHERIC RADIOPROPAGATION; SIMPLIFIED IONOSPHERIC REGIONAL MODEL (SIRM);

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 18344411230     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003rs002936     Document Type: Article

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