Model of topside ionosphere scale height based on topside sounder data

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 943-950

  Kutiev, Ivan S ^a   Marinov, Pencho G ^b   Watanabe, Shigeto ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron density scale height; Topside ionosphere; Topside sounders; Vertical scale height model

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FUNCTIONS; GEOMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; SATELLITES;

ELECTRON DENSITY SCALE HEIGHT; TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE; TOPSIDE SOUNDERS; VERTICAL SCALE HEIGHT MODEL;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33646561880     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.11.021     Document Type: Article

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