Ionospheric Characteristics for Archiving at the World Data Centers

Abstract

A database structure for archiving ionospheric characteristics at uneven data rates was developed at the July 1989 Ionospheric Informatics Working Group (IIWG) Lowell Workshop in Digital Ionogram Data Formats for World Data Center Archiving. This structure is proposed as a new URSI standard and is being employed by the World Data Center A for solar terrestrial physics for archiving characteristics. Here the database has been slightly refined for the application and programs written to generate these database files using as input Digisonde 256 ARTIST data, post processed by the ULCAR ADEP (ARTIST Data Editing Program) system. The characteristics program as well as supplemental programs developed for this task are described here. The new software will make it possible to archive the ionospheric characteristics from the Geophysics Laboratory high latitude Digisonde network, the AWS DISS and the international Digisonde networks, and other ionospheric sounding networks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA236645

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  • B. W. Reinisch
  • Robert R. Gamache

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  • Space

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  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
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  • Data Centers
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  • Environmental science

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