Utah State University Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements Gauss-Markov Kalman filter model of the ionosphere: Model description and validation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

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

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947540889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA011712     Document Type: Article

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