Equatorial scintillation calculations based on coherent scatter radar and C/NOFS data

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Costa, Emanoel ^a   De Paula, Eurico R ^b   Rezende, L F C ^b   Groves, Keith M ^c   Roddy, Patrick A ^c   Dao, Eugene V ^d   Kelley, Michael C ^d  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d School of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ELECTRON DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; FLEXIBLE MODEL; FORECASTING SYSTEM; IN-SITU DATA; INTENSITY MAPS; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; MEAN SQUARE; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; PROPAGATION PATHS; RANDOM-PHASE; SCATTER RADAR; SCINTILLATION INDEX; SCINTILLATION MONITORS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TIME VARIATIONS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; TWO-DIMENSION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RADAR; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79954547441     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RS004435     Document Type: Article

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