Total electron content measurements in ionospheric physics

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 720-726

  Garner, T W ^a   Gaussiran II, T L ^a   Tolman, B W ^a   Harris, R B ^a   Calfas, R S ^a   Gallagher, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron content; Ionospheric data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITES;

IONOSPHERIC SCIENTISTS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

ELECTRONS;

EID: 44949260862     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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