Ionospheric nowcasting via assimilation of GPS measurements of ionospheric electron content in a global physics-based time-dependent model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 613, 2006, Pages 3543-3559

  Khattatov, B ^a   Murphy, M ^a   Gnedin, M ^a   Sheffel, J ^a   Adams, J ^a   Cruickshank, B ^a   Yudin, V ^b   Fuller Rowell, T ^c   Retterer, J ^d  

^a Fusion Numerics Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Colorado University/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FORECAST MODEL; GPS DATA; IONOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON; IONOSPHERIC NOWCASTING; NOWCAST; OPERATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS; OVERALL DESIGN; PHYSICS-BASED; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; SEQUENTIAL DATA; TIME-DEPENDENT MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUN;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 69749127437     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.96     Document Type: Article

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