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Evidence for a gradient of scale height in the F region is shown, and discussed in relation to a simple Chapman model of the F region above hmaxF2. It is suggested that a similar model, but allowing for a scale-height gradient, may give somewhat better agreement with recent observations.
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J. W. Wright (1960) studied this question.
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