Contribution of the Chinese Meridian Project to space environment research: Highlights and perspectives

C Wang, J Xu, L Liu, X Xue, Q Zhang, Y Hao… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Chinese Meridian Project (CMP) is devoted to establishing a comprehensive
ground-based monitoring network for China's space weather research. CMP is a major …

Challenges to understanding the Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere

RA Heelis, A Maute - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss, in a limited way, some of the challenges to advancing our understanding and
description of the coupled plasma and neutral gas that make up the ionosphere and …

Global view of ionospheric disturbance impacts on kinematic GPS positioning solutions during the 2015 St. Patrick's Day storm

Z Yang, YTJ Morton, I Zakharenkova… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2015 St. Patrick's Day geomagnetic storm caused numerous disturbances of
the ionosphere, particularly, plasma irregularities, large‐scale traveling ionospheric …

The implications of ionospheric disturbances for precise GNSS positioning in Greenland

J Paziewski, P Høeg, R Sieradzki, Y Jin… - Journal of Space …, 2022 - swsc-journal.org
Ionospheric irregularities impair Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and, in
turn, affect the performance of GNSS positioning. Such effects are especially evident at low …

GPS scintillations associated with cusp dynamics and polar cap patches

Y Jin, JI Moen, K Oksavik, A Spicher… - Journal of Space …, 2017 - swsc-journal.org
This paper investigates the relative scintillation level associated with cusp dynamics
(including precipitation, flow shears, etc.) with and without the formation of polar cap patches …

Chinese ionospheric investigations in 2016–2017

LB Liu, WX Wan - Earth and Planetary Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
After the release of the previous report to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) on
progress achieved by Chinese scientists in ionospheric researches (Liu LB and Wan WX …

Experimental evidence on the dependence of the standard GPS phase scintillation index on the ionospheric plasma drift around noon sector of the polar ionosphere

Y Wang, QH Zhang, PT Jayachandran… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
First experimental proof of a clear and strong dependence of the standard phase scintillation
index (σφ) derived using Global Positioning System measurements on the ionospheric …

Polar cap hot patches: Enhanced density structures different from the classical patches in the ionosphere

QH Zhang, YZ Ma, PT Jayachandran… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Based on in situ and ground‐based observations, a new type of “polar cap hot patch” has
been identified that is different from the classical polar cap enhanced density structure (cold …

Climatology and modeling of ionospheric irregularities over Greenland based on empirical orthogonal function method

Y Jin, LBN Clausen, WJ Miloch, P Høeg… - Journal of Space …, 2022 - swsc-journal.org
This paper addresses the long-term climatology (over two solar cycles) of total electron
content (TEC) irregularities from a polar cap station (Thule) using the rate of change of the …

Ionospheric TEC variation over Svalbard archipelago, Norway and assessment of Bilinear interpolated GIM model

K Ansari, J Walo, K Wezka - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
The Svalbard archipelago region is a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, located between
the North Pole and the northern coastal region of Norway at high latitudes. The current study …