A novel neural network model of Earth's topside ionosphere

A Smirnov, Y Shprits, F Prol, H Lühr, M Berrendorf… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The Earth's ionosphere affects the propagation of signals from the Global Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS). Due to the non-uniform coverage of available observations and …

Solar flux influence on the in‐situ plasma density at topside ionosphere measured by Swarm satellites

C Xiong, H Jiang, R Yan, H Lühr… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we perform the first comprehensive comparison of ion density (Ni) in the
topside ionosphere measured by the Langmuir probe (LP) and faceplate (FP) of the thermal …

Combined model of topside ionosphere and plasmasphere derived from radio-occultation and Van Allen Probes data

FS Prol, AG Smirnov, MM Hoque, YY Shprits - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
In the last years, electron density profile functions characterized by a linear dependence on
the scale height showed good results when approximating the topside ionosphere. The …

[HTML][HTML] Swarm Langmuir probes' data quality validation and future improvements

F Catapano, S Buchert, E Qamili… - … , Methods and Data …, 2022 - gi.copernicus.org
Abstract Swarm is the European Space Agency (ESA)'s first Earth observation constellation
mission, which was launched in 2013 to study the geomagnetic field and its temporal …

Inter-calibration and statistical validation of topside ionosphere electron density observations made by cses-01 mission

A Pignalberi, M Pezzopane, I Coco, M Piersanti… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01) provides in situ electron density (N
e) observations through Langmuir probes (LPs) in the topside ionosphere since February …

Study of Ionospheric Bending Angle and Scintillation Profiles Derived by GNSS Radio-Occultation with MetOp-A Satellite

FS Prol, MM Hoque, M Hernández-Pajares, L Yuan… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, a dedicated campaign by MetOp-A satellite is conducted to monitor the
ionosphere based on radio-occultation (RO) measurements provided by the onboard GNSS …

Total root electron content: A new metric for the ionosphere below low Earth orbiting satellites

M Jenner, P Coïsson, G Hulot… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Powerful lightning strikes generate broadband electromagnetic signals. At Extremely Low
Frequencies (ELF), the signal partly leaks into the ionosphere and produces whistlers that …

Global Three‐Dimensional Ionospheric Tomography by Combination of Ground‐Based and Space‐Borne GNSS Data

D Mei, X Ren, H Liu, X Le, S Xiong, X Zhang - Space Weather, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The inhomogeneous distribution of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data is a
significant problem for global GNSS computerized ionospheric tomography (CIT). By …

Investigation of the topside ionosphere over Cyprus and Russia using Swarm data

H Haralambous, KS Paul, AK Singh, T Gulyaeva - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Using the topside electron density (Ne) measurements recorded over Cyprus and Russia,
we investigate the latitudinal variation in the topside electron density during the interval …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite-based electron density background definition at mid-latitudes and comparison with IRI-2016 model under different solar conditions

D Sabbagh, A Ippolito, D Marchetti, L Perrone… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
A new method to define a background for the ionospheric electron density (N e) is proposed,
making use of mid-latitude measurements under different solar conditions from the Langmuir …