Statistical analysis of GPS ionospheric scintillation and short-time TEC variations over Northern Europe

Navigation, Journal of the Institute of Navigation

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-75

  Rodrigues, Fabiano S ^a   Aquino, Marcio H O ^a   Dodson, Alan ^a   Moore, Terry ^a   Waugh, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERROR CORRECTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IONOSPHERE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIO WAVES; SCINTILLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA SHEETS; PHASE-LOCK-LOOP (PLL); SATELLITE BASED AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS (SBAS); TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 3342916643     PISSN: 00281522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-4296.2004.tb00341.x     Document Type: Article

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