A global climatology of ionospheric irregularities derived from GPS radio occultation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Arras, C ^a   Wickert, J ^a   Beyerle, G ^a   Heise, S ^a   Schmidt, T ^a   Jacobi, C ^b  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLIMATOLOGY; COSMOLOGY; E REGION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; RADIO; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; DATA COVERAGE; DATA SETS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; GLOBAL MAPS; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; RADIO OCCULTATION; RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SPORADIC E; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATOLOGY; E REGION; GPS; MAGNETIC FIELD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 53749095588     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034158     Document Type: Article

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