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From the Valley experiment, we collected information about Faraday rotation using the ISR data, and ionograms generated using the VIPIR ionosonde. Both the forward model and the Faraday rotation are used jointly to do the inversion on the ionogram and backscatter radar data to infer the E-region ionospheric electron density."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["A forward model for ionospheric soundings and its use with incoherent scatter radar data to obtain ionospheric plasma density profiles"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Kudeki, Erhan"],"dc:creator":["Le, Lin"],"dc:date":["2022-05","2021-12-10"],"dc:description":["Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. 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