A new approach to modelling the daytime lower ionosphere at auroral latitudes

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1943-1948

  McKinnell, L A ^a,c   Friedrich, M ^a   Steiner, R J ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

D region; Ionospheric models; Lower ionosphere; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCATTERING;

AURORAL LATITUDES; INPUT SPACE; IONOSPHERIC MODELS; LOWER IONOSPHERE;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 9644274198     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2004.05.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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