Ionospheric local model and climatology from long-term databases of multiple incoherent scatter radars

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Zhang, Shun-Rong, Holt, John M., Van Eyken, Anthony P., Mccready, Mary, Amory-Mazaudier, Christine, Fukao, Shoichiro, Sulzer, Michael
• Other Authors: MIT Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), EISCAT Scientific Association Sweden, SRI International Menlo Park (SRI), Centre d'étude des environnements terrestre et planétaires (CETP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University Kyoto, Arecibo Observatory, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), Cornell University New York, NSF Space Weather grant ATM-0207748
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]; Svalbard; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00158334; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00158334/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00158334/file/Zhang_et_al-2005-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL023603

Empirical ionospheric local models have beendeveloped from long-term data sets of seven incoherentscatter radars spanning invariant latitudes from 25 to 75 inAmerican, European and Asian longitudes at Svalbard,Tromsø, Sondrestrom, Millstone Hill, St. Santin, Areciboand Shigaraki. These models, as important complements toglobal models, represent electron density, ion and electrontemperatures, and ion drifts in the E and F regions, giving acomprehensive quantitative description of ionosphericproperties. A case study of annual ionospheric variationsin electron density and ion temperature is presented basedon some of these models. Clear latitudinal, longitudinal, andaltitude dependency of annual and semiannual componentsare found.