A statistical study of ionospheric profile parameters derived from Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Lei, Jiuhou ^a,b,c   Liu, Libo ^a   Wan, Weixing ^a   Zhang, Shun Rong ^d   Holt, John M ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MILLSTONE HILL;

IONOSPHERE;

DIURNAL VARIATION; F REGION; IONOSPHERE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 4644316322     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020578     Document Type: Article

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