The Utah State University Gauss-Markov Kalman filter of the ionosphere: The effect of slant TEC and electron density profile data on model fidelity

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 947-958

  Thompson, D C ^a   Scherliess, L ^a   Sojka, J J ^a   Schunk, R W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ionosphere; Kalman filter; Space weather

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTERING; SPACE RESEARCH;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILE; GAUSS-MARKOV KALMAN FILTER; SPACE WEATHER; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

GEOPHYSICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ELECTRON DENSITY; FORECASTING METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IONOSPHERE; KALMAN FILTER; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 33646521966     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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