Height profiles of the ionospheric electron density derived using space-based remote sensing of UV and X ray emissions and EISCAT radar data: A ground-truth experiment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Aksnes, A ^a,b,g   Stadsnes, J ^a   Ostgaard N ^a   Germany, G A ^c   Oksavik, K ^d,h   Vondrak, R R ^e   Brekke, A ^f   Lovhaug U P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947575949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011331     Document Type: Article

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