Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTID) modeling using a dense German GPS network

verfasst von
Zhiguo Deng, Steffen Schön, Hongping Zhang, Michael Bender, Jens Wickert
Abstract

The MSTIDs are wave-like perturbations of the ionospheric plasma, which cause the most common ionospheric disturbances in mid-latitude regions. Generally the MSTIDs have velocities of several hundred meters per second and wavelengths of several hundred kilometers. The wave-like effect of the MSTID is one of the main obstacles for accurate interpolation of ionospheric corrections in a medium-scale reference GPS network. In this paper we show a new method of detecting and modeling MSTIDs using dense German GPS network. The between-epoch single difference ionospheric delays from a medium scale dense GPS network are used to estimate the parameter of the MSTID e.g. amplitude, wavelength and velocity. The efficiency of the approach is tested with data from about 320 GPS stations in and near Germany. A MSTID wave moving from east to west across Germany was observed at September 27 in 2009. Its wavelength is about 302 km, with a period of ∼7 min and velocity of about 700 m/s.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Erdmessung
Externe Organisation(en)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)
Wuhan University
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Advances in space research
Band
51
Seiten
1001-1007
Anzahl der Seiten
7
ISSN
0273-1177
Publikationsdatum
27.07.2012
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Astronomie und Astrophysik, Geophysik, Atmosphärenwissenschaften, Astronomie und Planetologie, Erdkunde und Planetologie (insg.)
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2012.07.022 (Zugang: Unbekannt)
 

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