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Tepley & Mathews 1985
Tepley, C.A. and Mathews, J.D. (1985). An incoherent scatter radar measurement of the average ion mass and temperature of a nighttime sporadic layer. Journal of Geophysical Research 90: doi: 10.1029/JA090iA04p03517. issn: 0148-0227.

We report the results of incoherent scatter radar, total power, and ion line observations of a nighttime sporadic layer centered at 92-km altitude. The height variation of the absolute widths of the ion line yields a layer temperature of 210¿¿5 ¿K and a mean ion mass of 50¿10 amu. This ion mass, when compared with average meteor composition, indicates that the layer is composed totally of metallic ions.

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