Ionospheric climatology derived from GPS occultation observations made by the ionospheric occultation experiment

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 793-802

  Straus, P R ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Ionosphere; Occultation

Indexed keywords

F REGION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DAYTIME DENSITIES; IONOSPHERIC OCCULTATION EXPERIMENT (IOX); OCCULTATION DATA; SIMULATED IONOSPHERIC INVERSIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 34249089843     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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