DocumentCode
433330
Title
Construction of an empirical model relating TEC to foF2
Author
Ma, G. ; Maruyama, Tetsuhiro
Author_Institution
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
fYear
2004
fDate
24-27 Aug. 2004
Firstpage
366
Lastpage
367
Abstract
This paper aims to construct an empirical model to relate total electron content (TEC) to ionospheric critical frequency (foF2). The TEC was obtained by using GPS data from a dense GPS network, GEONET, and the foF2 was from ionosonde observations in Japan. The morphology of TEC and foF2 are analyzed and compared for each month. Empirical coefficients are fitted for the variation of the ratio of TEC to the square of foF2 (TEC/(foF2)2). So the distribution of TEC can be obtained by substituting the foF2 into the model.
Keywords
Global Positioning System; ionospheric measuring apparatus; ionospheric techniques; plasma diagnostics; GEONET dense GPS network; Japan; TEC; TEC distribution; TEC morphology; empirical model; foF2; foF2 model substitution; foF2 morphology; ionosonde observations; ionospheric critical frequency; total electron content; Earth; Electrons; Frequency; Global Positioning System; Ionosphere; Least squares methods; Navigation; Plasmas; Solar power generation; Surface fitting;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Radio Science Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 Asia-Pacific
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8404-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/APRASC.2004.1422485
Filename
1422485
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