Book Description
Four separate articles are collected which deal with the construction of empirical models of the polar ionosphere. The particular emphasis in these articles is towards the radio propagation application of the models. Numerical models of the vertical electron density profiles on the topside and bottomside of the F-region are developed, and a model for sporadic-E is included. Special attention is devoted to features which are characteristic of the polar ionosphere-auroral effects, the trough, and magnetospheric cleft regions. The models are constructed specifically for convenience in computer programming, and in fact, all aspects of the models contained in this report are available in the form of Fortran computer programs. (Author).