Comparison of ionospheric characteristic parameters obtained by GPS and ionosonde with IRI model over China

Journal of Earth system science

Cheng Wang1 2¹ 

[1] Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Information Technology, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China.$$

关键词: TEC;    NmF2;    hmF2;    GPS;    IRI model;    IRI2012;   

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学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents a comparison of ionospheric characteristic parameters obtained by a GPS networkand three ionosondes at Mohe (122.4^◦E, 53.5^◦N, dip angle 70.983^◦N), Zuolingzhen (114.6^◦E, 30.5^◦N, dipangle 46.350^◦N), and Fuke (109.1^◦E, 19.5^◦N, dip angle 27.083^◦N) located in China with an IRI model inthe year 2011. Observed NmF2 and hmF2 values at the three stations are compared with IRI2007 andIRI2012 predictions, respectively. The results show that there are clear linear correlations between theobserved values and the IRI model predicted values. The IRI model gives overestimations at the threestations mostly in 2011. For the NmF2 and hmF2 values, most of the results show that the IRI2012predicted values are closer to the observed values compared with those of IRI2007. Additionally, theGPS TEC values derived from the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC) arecompared with the IRI2012 predictions. From the results, it is evident that the IRI2012 model predictionsfollow the normal trend of diurnal variation of GPS measured TEC monthly means but do not reproducethe measured data well. The IRI2012 model overestimates electron density in the latter part of spring aswell as the first half of autumn and winter and underestimates electron density in early spring and thelatter part of autumn. Referring to GPS TEC, the precision of the IRI2012 model predicted TEC valuesis ∼5 TECU over China. It may also be noted that there are two discontinuities of IRI-TEC monthlymeans appearing in November and December of the year 2011. This brings a bias of ∼3 TECU of TECvalues between two adjacent months.

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