Comparison of true-height electron density profiles derived by POLAN and NHPC methods

P. Šauli; Z. Mošna; J. Boška; D. Kouba; J. Laštovička; D. Altadill

doi:10.1007/s11200-007-0026-3

Comparison of true-height electron density profiles derived by POLAN and NHPC methods

P. Šauli^*
, Z. Mošna
, J. Boška
, D. Kouba
, J. Laštovička
, D. Altadill

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The changing state of the ionosphere is generally monitored by networks of vertical ionosondes that provide us with regular ionospheric sounding. Many ionospheric applications require determination of the true-height electron density profiles. Therefore, ionograms must be further inverted into real-height electron density profiles. The paper presents the comparison study of the true-height electron density profiles inverted from ionograms using two different methods POLAN (Titheridge, 1985) and NHPC (Huang and Reinish, 1996; Reinish et al., 2005), widely used by the ionospheric research community. Our results show significant systematic differences between electron density profiles calculated by these two inversion methods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	449-459
Number of pages	11
Journal	Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Volume	51
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-007-0026-3
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Electron concentration profiles
Inversion methods
Ionosphere
Vertical ionospheric sounding

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