Large-scale ionospheric gradients over Europe observed in October 2003

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1894-1903

  Jakowski, N ^a   Mielich, J ^b   Borries, C ^a   Cander, L ^c   Krankowski, A ^d   Nava, B ^e   Stankov, S M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^e ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

GPS; Ionosonde; Ionosphere; Perturbations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFORMATION SERVICES; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CURRENT SIGNALS; EUROPEANS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GPS; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; IONISATION; IONOSONDE; IONOSPHERE STORMS; IONOSPHERIC GRADIENTS; IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS; IONOSPHERIC STORMS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; PERTURBATIONS; RAPID CHANGES; RATE OF CHANGES; REFERENCE SERVICES; SERVICE USERS; SPACE WEATHERS; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; STRONG ENHANCEMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENTS; VERTICAL SOUNDINGS;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

EID: 56249136236     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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