Estimation of the total electron content of the Martian ionosphere using radar sounder surface echoes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Safaeinili, Ali ^a   Kofman, Wlodek ^b   Mouginot, Jérémie ^b   Gim, Yonggyu ^a   Herique, Alain ^b   Ivanov, Anton B ^a   Plaut, Jeffrey J ^a   Picardi, Giovanni ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONS; ESTIMATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLAR WIND;

MARTIAN IONOSPHERE; RADAR SIGNAL; RADAR SOUNDER SURFACE ECHOES; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

IONOSPHERE;

ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY SURFACE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 39049088562     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032154     Document Type: Article

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