Improvements of the International Reference Ionosphere model for the topside electron density profile

Radio Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Bilitza, Dieter ^a,h   Reinisch, Bodo W ^b   Radicella, Sandro M ^c   Pulinets, Sergey ^d   Gulyaeva, Tamara ^e,f   Triskova, Lida ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

^f Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^g INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^h GSFC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EQUATORIAL ANOMALY (EA); INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE IONOSPHERE (IRI); TOPSIDE ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33845789724     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RS003370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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