Modeling the responses of the middle latitude ionosphere to solar flares

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1587-1598

  Le, Huijun ^a   Liu, Libo ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Lei, Jiuhou ^c   Yue, Xinan ^a,b   Wan, Weixing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flares; Mid latitude ionosphere; Modeling and forecasting

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

IRRADIANCE SPECTRUM; MIDDLE LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; SOLAR FLARES; SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 34548019949     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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