A method for estimating the parameters of the vertical distribution of electron density according to ionograms with cusp-shaped features
Abstract
A method is proposed for estimating the parameters of traveling ionospheric disturbances and the undisturbed electron-density profile from ionograms with cusp-shaped features. Numerical-simulation is used to elucidate the types of disturbances leading to the appearance of cusps on the ionograms, and a technique for identifying these types of disturbances is presented.
- Publication:
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Physics of the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation
- Pub Date:
- 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987pirw.book...95B
- Keywords:
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- Ionograms;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances;
- Vertical Distribution;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Critical Frequencies;
- Cusps;
- Electron Density Profiles;
- F 2 Region;
- Geophysics