A comparison of ionization densities determined from spacecraft and incoherent scatter radar data |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, U.S.A.;2. National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India 110012;1. Institute of Atmpospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia;2. Department of Physics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia |
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| Abstract: | By comparing direct measurements taken from onboard Atmosphere Explorer spacecraft (AE), in eccentric orbit, with incoherent scatter radar (ISR) measurements taken from the ground, we illustrate both the merits and the difficulties involved in such comparisons. Five altitude profiles of ionization determined from AE, in near coincidence with ground stations making ISR measurements, compared favorably with the ISR data so long as the AE measurements were properly analyzed for the effects of variations in latitude and solar zenith angle along the spacecraft orbit. |
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