C/NOFS: A mission to forecast scintillations

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 17 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 1573-1591

  de La Beaujardiere O ^a   Jeong, Laila ^b   Basu, Bamandas ^b   Basu, Santimay ^b   Beach, Theodore ^b   Bernhardt, Paul ^b   Burke, William ^b   Groves, Keith ^b   Heelis, Roderick ^b   Holzworth, Robert ^b   Huang, Cheryl ^b   Hunton, Donald ^b   Kelley, Michael ^b   Pfaff, Robert ^b   Retterer, John ^b   Rich, Frederick ^b   Starks, Michael ^b   Straus, Paul ^b   Valladares, Cesar ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Equatorial ionosphere; Plasma instabilities; Scintillation; Space weather

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PLASMA STABILITY; RADIO WAVES; SATELLITES;

COMMUNICATION OUTAGE FORECASTING SYSTEM (COFS); IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; NAVIGATION OUTAGE FORECASTING SYSTEM (NOFS); RADIO WAVE SCINTILLATIONS;

SCINTILLATION;

IONOSPHERE; PLASMA; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 7244238313     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2004.07.030     Document Type: Article

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