Journal article
Lidar technique for measuring ionospheric barium release ion density
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol.94(A2), pp.1533-1536
02/01/1989
DOI: 10.1029/JA094iA02p01533
Abstract
An evaluation of the resonant fluorescence lidar technique as a method of measuring ion density during ionospheric barium releases is presented. We find that it is technically feasible to measure ion densities of 103 cm−3 at an altitude of 200 km with a time resolution of 0.5 s by using a ground‐based laser and telescope. One application of the lidar technique would be observation of the critical ionization velocity effect at nighttime, without the complication of solar illumination. Criteria useful for evaluating the feasibility of other experiments are presented.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Lidar technique for measuring ionospheric barium release ion density
- Creators
- J GoreeJ. S Neff
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol.94(A2), pp.1533-1536
- DOI
- 10.1029/JA094iA02p01533
- ISSN
- 0148-0227
- eISSN
- 2156-2202
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/1989
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy; Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984199708702771
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