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ALTAIR incoherent scatter observations of the equatorial daytime ionosphere
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Kwajalein Range Services LLC, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
The first high-resolution electron density maps of the low-latitude D- and E-region ionosphere in the Pacific sector acquired with ALTAIR UHF measurements are presented. The electron density data were collected in connection with a rocket based common volume experiment described by Friedrich et al. (2006). The observed phenomena in the density maps include E-region density layers of tidal origin, shorter lived layers with small vertical scales, and lower E-region electron density enhancement in response to enhanced X-ray flux.
Received 9 November 2005; accepted 6 February 2006; published 28 April 2006.
Citation: (2006), ALTAIR incoherent scatter observations of the equatorial daytime ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08108, doi:10.1029/2005GL025180.
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