Equatorial Spread-F Contour Plot (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

Equatorial Spread-F Contour Plot

Caption

This is a contour plot of the electron density as a function of magnetic local time and altitude. A fully 3-D spatial model of ESF describing the motion of ions along and transverse to the geomagnetic field in a narrow longitudinal wedge of the post-sunset ionosphere.

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Naval Research Laboratory (2010)

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