Comparative study of polar cap electron density measurements and E-CHAIM modeling

• Main Author: Larson, Bion
• Other Authors: Koustov, Alexandre, Bradley, Michael, Bourassa, Adam, Hussey, Glenn, Klymyshyn, David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2021
• Subjects: high-latitude ionosphere; electron density; Swarm Langmuir Probe; incoherent scatter radar; E-CHAIM ionospheric model; validation; Arctic; Canada; Langmuir; Nunavut; Resolute Bay
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10388/13751

The electron density in the Earth’s topside ionosphere has been studied with ground-based incoherent scatter radars (ISRs), Langmuir Probes (LP) placed on low-altitude satellites and many other instruments and techniques. These measurements have been continuously digested into statistical models of...