Modeling the IRI topside profile using scale heights from ground-based ionosonde measurements

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2026-2031

  Reinisch, Bodo W ^a   Huang, Xue Qin ^a   Belehaki, Anna ^b   Shi, Jian Kui ^c   Zhang, Man Lian ^c   Ilma, Ronald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^d INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Ionosphere; Modelling; Scale height; Topside profile

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; EXTRAPOLATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES;

DIGISONDES; GROUND BASED IONOSONDE MEASUREMENTS; PLASMASPHERES; TOPSIDE PROFILES;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 9644295975     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2004.06.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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