Modeling investigation of ionospheric storm effects over Millstone Hill during August 4-5, 1992

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 903-908

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

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Incoherent scatter radar; Ion chemistry and composition; Ionospheric storm; Middle latitude ionosphere; Modeling and forecasting

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 20644442250     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352537     Document Type: Article

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