Modelling of the ionosphere/thermosphere behaviour during the April 2002 magnetic storms: A comparison of the UAM results with the ISR and NRLMSISE-00 data

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 380-391

  Namgaladze, A A ^a,b   Zubova, Yu V ^a   Namgaladze, A N ^b   Martynenko, O V ^a,b   Doronina, E N ^a   Goncharenko, L P ^c   Van Eyken, A ^d   Howells, V ^e   Thayer, J P ^f   Taran, V I ^g   Shpynev, B ^h   Zhou, Q ⁱ  

^a MURMANSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF IONOSPHERE   (Ukraine)

^h INSTITUTE OF SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere; IS Radar; Model; Thermosphere

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PLASMA DENSITY; RADAR; SPACE RESEARCH; STORMS;

IS RADAR; MAGNETIC STORMS; THERMOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33644607203     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.04.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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