Modeling the behavior of ionosphere above Millstone Hill during the September 21-27, 1998 storm

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1093-1102

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

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Incoherent scatter radar; Ionospheric storm; Modeling and forecasting

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 3142654132     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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