Assimilative modeling of the equatorial ionosphere for scintillation forecasting: Modeling with vertical drifts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 110, Issue A11, 2005, Pages

  Retterer, John M ^a   Decker, D T ^a   Borer, W S ^a   Daniell Jr , R E ^b   Fejer, B G ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33845739193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009613     Document Type: Article

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