Medium- and small-scale ionospheric irregularities detected by GPS radio occultation method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Tsybulya, Konstantin ^a   Jakowski, N ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMAS; RADIO; SATELLITES;

GEOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH; IONIZATION LEVELS; RADIO OCCULTATION TECHNIQUE;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

ANOMALY; F REGION; GPS; IONOSPHERE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 21044452044     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022420     Document Type: Article

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