Ionospheric Informatics and Empirical Modelling

About this book

The 23 papers published in this volume represent the majority of those presented at the above workshop. Apart from describing the profiles by analytic functions, a few more experimental techniques were also presented. There were several contributions regarding the world-wide mapping of experimental data, particularly longitude effects. Additionally, there is a summary of the meeting of the new URSI Working Group G4 together with some of the papers offered.

Contents

Section headings and selected papers: Preface. Plasma Densities. International Reference Ionosphere - plasma densities: status 1988, K Rawer & D Bilitza; Aeronomical calculations of valley size in the ionosphere, J E Titheridge. Ionospheric characteristics for IRI in real time, B W Reinisch et al . Mapping. Longitude features shown by topside sounder data and their importance in ionospheric mapping, N P Benkova et al . Ionospheric mapping using satellite data of natural HF noise, S A Pulinets et al . Atmospheric gravity waves and ionospheric modelling, Lj R Chander et al . Plasma Temperatures. Solar activity variation of ionospheric plasma temperatures, D Bilitza & W R Hoegy; Comparison of ionospheric electron temperature rocket measurements over Natal, Brazil with the IRI model, I J Kantor et al . Ionic Composition and Drifts. Variations of helium ion density from theoretical considerations, R Koleva & I Kutiev.; Applications of IRI. Ionospheric and tropospheric path delay obtained from GPS integrated phase, incoherent scatter and refractometer data and from IRI-86, A J Coster et al . Data Handling. Structure and information flows in the distributed solar-terrestrial physics data base system, C C Abston et al . URSI Working Group G-4 on Ionospheric Informatics. N(h) profile data at world data centers, J H Allen et al . Discussion of the valley problem in N(h) analysis of ionograms, T L Gulyaeva et al . Author index.

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