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Evaluation of the IRI-2016 and NeQuick electron content specification by COSMIC GPS radio occultation, ground-based GPS and Jason-2 joint altimeter/GPS observations / Iurii Cherniak in Advances in space research, vol 63 n° 6 (15 March 2019)  

Public [article]  inAdvances in space research > vol 63 n° 6 (15 March 2019) . - pp 1845 - 1859 Titre : Evaluation of the IRI-2016 and NeQuick electron content specification by COSMIC GPS radio occultation, ground-based GPS and Jason-2 joint altimeter/GPS observations Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Iurii Cherniak, Auteur ; Irina Zakharenkova, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 1845 - 1859 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] données altimétriques [Termes IGN] données GPS [Termes IGN] données Jason [Termes IGN] International Reference Ionosphere [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] plasmasphère [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Termes IGN] variation diurne Résumé : (Auteur) We examined performance of two empirical profile-based ionospheric models, namely IRI-2016 and NeQuick-2, in electron content (EC) and total electron content (TEC) representation for different seasons and levels of solar activity. We derived and analyzed EC estimates in several representative altitudinal intervals for the ionosphere and the plasmasphere from the COSMIC GPS radio occultation, ground-based GPS and Jason-2 joint altimeter/GPS observations. It allows us to estimate a quantitative impact of the ionospheric electron density profiles formulation in several altitudinal intervals and to examine the source of the model-data discrepancies of the EC specification from the bottom-side ionosphere towards the GPS orbit altitudes. The most pronounced model-data differences were found at the low latitude region as related to the equatorial ionization anomaly appearance. Both the IRI-2016 and NeQuick-2 models tend to overestimate the daytime ionospheric EC and TEC at low latitudes during all seasons of low solar activity. On the contrary, during high solar activity the model results underestimated the EC/TEC observations at low latitudes. We found that both models underestimated the EC for the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere regions for all levels of solar activity. For low solar activity, the underestimated EC from the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere can compensate the overestimation of the ionospheric EC and, consequently, can slightly decrease the resulted model overestimation of the ground-based TEC. For high solar activity, the underestimated EC from the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere leads to a strengthening of the model underestimation of the ground-based TEC values. We demonstrated that the major source of the model-data discrepancies in the EC/TEC domain comes from the topside ionosphere/plasmasphere system. Numéro de notice : A2019-171 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.asr.2018.10.036 Date de publication en ligne : 02/11/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.10.036 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92622 [article]