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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 33,
L08108,
doi:10.1029/2005GL025180,
2006
ALTAIR incoherent scatter observations of the equatorial daytime ionosphere
Erhan Kudeki
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Marco Milla
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Martin Friedrich
Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Gerald Lehmacher
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Dale Sponseller
Kwajalein Range Services LLC, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Abstract
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.
Index Terms: 2415 Ionosphere: Equatorial ionosphere; 2437 Ionosphere: Ionospheric dynamics; 2439 Ionosphere: Ionospheric irregularities; 2467 Ionosphere: Plasma temperature and density; 2494 Ionosphere: Instruments and techniques.
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Citation: Kudeki, E., M. Milla, M. Friedrich, G. Lehmacher, and D. Sponseller
(2006),
ALTAIR incoherent scatter observations of the equatorial daytime ionosphere,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,
33,
L08108,
doi:10.1029/2005GL025180.
Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union.
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