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Sica et al. 1990
Sica, R.J., Schunk, R.W. and Wilkinson, P.G. (1990). A study of the undisturbed mid-latitude ionosphere using simultaneous multiple site ionosonde measurements during the sundial-86 campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: doi: 10.1029/89JA01484. issn: 0148-0227.

The Sundial-86 campaign obtained simultaneous ionosonde measurements of NmF2 from 41 mid-latitude sites geographically dispersed around the world from September 21 to October 5, 1986. A three-dimensional, time-dependent model of Earth's ionosphere has been used to fit the variations in Nm F2 obtained from these sites. The model successfully reproduced the measurements in both the northern and southern hemispheres using the vertical plasma drift as a free parameter. During geomagnetically quiet conditions this drift is primarily due to the meriodional neutral wind. The veritical plasma drift required to fit the data is consistent from location to location and the deduced meridional neutral wind is also consistent with previous neutral wind measurements and models. However, it is shown that a lack of knowledge of the variation of the O+ flux at the top of the atmosphere introduces a large uncertainty in the deduced thermospheric winds. ¿American Geophysical Union 1990

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Ionosphere, Active experiments
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