Field-aligned distribution of the plasmaspheric electron density: An empirical model derived from the IMAGE RPI measurements

@article{Ozhogin2012FieldalignedDO,
  title={Field-aligned distribution of the plasmaspheric electron density: An empirical model derived from the IMAGE RPI measurements},
  author={Pavel Ozhogin and Jiannan Tu and Paul Song and Bodo W. Reinisch},
  journal={Journal of Geophysical Research},
  year={2012},
  volume={117},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:128408706}
}
[1] We present a newly developed empirical model of the plasma density in the plasmasphere. It is based on more than 700 density profiles along field lines derived from active sounding measurements made by the radio plasma imager on IMAGE between June 2000 and July 2005. The measurements cover all magnetic local times and vary from L = 1.6 to L = 4 spatially, with every case manually confirmed to be within the plasmasphere by studying the corresponding dynamic spectrogram. The resulting model… 
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