Variations of electron density based on long-term incoherent scatter radar and ionosonde measurements over Millstone Hill

Radio Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Lei, Jiuhou ^a,c,d   Liu, Libo ^a   Wan, Weixing ^a   Zhang, Shun Rong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; FORECASTING; GEOPHYSICS; IONOSPHERE; PLASMAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM;

INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR (ISR); IONOSPHERIC IONIZATION; PLASMA TEMPERATURES; SOLAR ACTIVITY INDEX;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

EID: 20344393884     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004RS003106     Document Type: Article

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