Contrasting the responses of three different ground-based instruments to energetic electron precipitation

Radio Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Rodger, Craig J ^a   Clilverd, Mark A ^b   Kavanagh, Andrew J ^c   Watt, Clare E J ^d   Verronen, Pekka T ^e   Raita, Tero ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; ENERGETIC ELECTRON PRECIPITATION; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; MONOENERGETIC; NOISE ABSORPTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION MEASUREMENT; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; SPACE MISSIONS; SUBSTORMS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT UNITS;

ELECTRON SCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

RADIATION BELTS;

EID: 84861367012     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RS004971     Document Type: Article

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