Topside sounder model of scale height and transition height characteristics of the ionosphere

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 759-766

  Kutiev, Ivan ^a   Marinov, Pencho ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Electron density profiles; Ionospheric modeling; Topside ionosphere; Topside scale height; Upper transition height

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; GEOMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEON; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES; IONOSPHERIC MODELING; TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE; TOPSIDE SCALE HEIGHT (T); UPPER TRANSITION HEIGHT;

F REGION;

EID: 34249099935     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.06.013     Document Type: Article

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