Global characteristics of occurrence of an additional layer in the ionosphere observed by COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zhao, Biqiang ^a   Wan, Weixing ^a   Yue, Xinan ^b   Liu, Libo ^a   Ren, Zhipeng ^a   He, Maosheng ^a,c   Liu, Jing ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

DIURNAL TIDES; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES; EQUATORIAL AREA; EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; F2 LAYER; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; GLOBAL SCALE; PEAK HEIGHT; SUMMER MONTHS; WAVE NUMBERS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; COSMIC; ELECTRON; F REGION; FORMOSAT-3; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 78751527049     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045744     Document Type: Article

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