Plasmaspheric Electron Content contribution inferred from ground and radio occultation derived Total Electron Content

Angela Aragon Angel, Jaume Sanz, Jose Miguel Juan, Manuel Hernandez Pajares, David Altadill

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The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC satellite constellation has become an important source of remote sensing data globally distributed for the sounding of the atmosphere of the Earth and, in particular, the ionosphere. In this study, electron density profiles derived using the Improved Abel transform inversion in Radio Occultation (RO) scenarios are used as input data to derive some features regarding the topside and outside ionospheric contribution, hence, the plasmasphere in great extend, by means of the analysis of the integral values of the shape functions corresponding to each density profile. The novelty presented in this paper, with respect to previous works, is the use of experimental data from the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC RO-derived electron densities to infer global characterizations and distribution of the Total Electron Content (TEC) into its main components: ionospheric TEC and plasmaspheric TEC, both contributing to TEC. The results show agreement with earlier modeled and observational data from previous local studies of the plasmaspheric contribution. The main conclusion of this research is that the plasmasphere contributes significantly to TEC and the ratio between plasmaspheric TEC and TEC has been climatologically analyzed for the whole year 2007 confirming that the major relative impact of the plasmasphere is during night time. The added value of this study is that the results obtained are globally distributed and can help to infer a proxy for the plasmaspheric contribution at any location over the globe thanks to the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC coverage.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojada2012 4th International Conference on Communications and Electronics, ICCE 2012
Páginas257-262
Número de páginas6
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EstadoPublicada - 2012
Evento2012 4th International Conference on Communications and Electronics, ICCE 2012 - Hue Royal City, Vietnam
Duración: 1 ago 20123 ago 2012

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Nombre2012 4th International Conference on Communications and Electronics, ICCE 2012

Conferencia

Conferencia2012 4th International Conference on Communications and Electronics, ICCE 2012
País/TerritorioVietnam
CiudadHue Royal City
Período1/08/123/08/12

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