Proposed improvement of the IRI topside profile formula
Proposed improvement of the IRI topside profile formula
Abstract Since plasma interchange in the F-region is field-aligned, it is not possible to describe adequately the spatial structures occurring at low latitudes when admitting that they depend exclusively on the vertical coordinate. It is therefore proposed: (1) To replace in the topside description the vertical coordinate by the length along the magnetic fieldline (in a local dipole approximation) and (2) to replace, in the transition range to the plasmasphere, Rycroft's non-analytic formula by a fully analytic function of almost equal shape.
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Proposed improvement of the IRI topside profile formula
Advances in Space Research ; 10 , 11 ; 75-78
1990-01-01
4 pages
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English
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