Development of a middle and low latitude theoretical ionospheric model and an observation system data assimilation experiment

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-101

  Yue, Xinan ^a,b,c   Wan, Weixing ^a   Liu, Libo ^a   Le, Huijun ^a   Chen, Yiding ^a   Yu, Tao ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ionosphere; Nonlinear least square fit method; Theoretical model

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149089489     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0462-z     Document Type: Article

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