Topside electron density in IRI and NeQuick: Features and limitations

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 937-942

  Coisson P ^a   Radicella, S M ^a   Leitinger, R ^b   Nava, B ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

International reference ionosphere; Ionospheric models; Topside ionosphere

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPACE RESEARCH;

CONSTANT GRADIENT SECTIONS; EMPIRICAL SHAPE PARAMETERS; INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MODELS; TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE; TRANSITION HEIGHT;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33646450923     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.015     Document Type: Article

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