Electron content modelling - The significance of protonospheric contents

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Aug 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981p%26ss...29..869p&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 29, Aug. 1981, p. 869-883. Research supported by the Science Research Council of England.

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Atmospheric Models, Ats 6, Ionospheric Electron Density, Ionospheric Sounding, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Plasmasphere, Radio Beacons, Diurnal Variations, Faraday Effect, Hydrogen Ions, Magnetic Flux, Midlatitude Atmosphere, Oxygen, Time Dependence

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A main feature of the ATS-6 satellite beacon experiment was the ability to deduce continuously the electron content along the entire slant path from ground-based measurements of the signal group delay. This feature has been exploited in combination with the more usual Faraday rotation technique to separate the total electron content into ionospheric and protonospheric components. The physical validity of the deduced quantities is studied using a mathematical model of the plasmasphere in which integration of the time-dependent continuity and momentum equations for oxygen and hydrogen ions along selected L shells yields the ion concentrations and field-aligned fluxes. The mathematical model is used with different sets of atmospheric parameters to study the significance of ionospheric and protonospheric contents as derived from beacon data. The calculated electron concentrations are able to reproduce midlatitude equinoctial electron content observations.

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