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Sojka & Schunk 1982
Sojka, J.J. and Schunk, R.W. (1982). Predicted diurnal variations of electron density for three high-latitude incoherent scatter radars. Geophysical Research Letters 9: doi: 10.1029/GL009i002p00143. issn: 0094-8276.

We have used a high-latitude ionospheric model to predict the diurnal variations of electron density that should be observed by the EISCAT, Chatanika and Millstone Hill incoherent scatter facilities. Our caluclations were for a strong convection model without substorms. Our results provide an indication of the quantitative differences in measured electron density that are expected when the three radars probe the high-latitude ionosphere simultaneously. The differences are significant and vary with altitude, latitude, local time, and season, and are associated with the UT dependence of the high-latitude ionosphere which results from the displacement between the geomagnetic and geographic poles.

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