Role of thermosphere-ionosphere coupling in a global ionospheric specification

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Matsuo, Tomoko ^a,b,c   Araujo Pradere, Eduardo A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c 2d Weather Squadron Operating Location P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST MODEL; GAUSS-MARKOV; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL NETWORKS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT; SELF-CONSISTENT TREATMENT; SPECIFICATION METHODOLOGIES; THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

DATA PROCESSING; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 81255209121     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RS004576     Document Type: Article

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