Comparison of the topside ionosphere scale height determined by topside sounders model and bottomside digisonde profiles

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 963-966

  Belehaki, A ^a   Marinov, Pencho ^b   Kutiev, Ivan ^c   Jakowski, Norbert ^d   Stankov, Stanimir ^d  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron density profile; Scale height; Topside extrapolation; Topside ionosphere; Topside sounders

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; SATELLITES; THERMAL EFFECTS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BOTTOMSIDE DIGISONDE PROFILES; EMPIRICAL MODELS; TOPSIDE EXTRAPOLATIONS; TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE SCALE HEIGHT; TOPSIDE SOUNDERS MODELS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33646462312     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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