ISACCO: an Italian project to monitor the high latitudes ionosphere by means of GPS receivers
As the high latitude ionosphere is directly connected with outer space by means of the field line reconnection of the geomagnetic field through the magnetopause, it is highly sensitive to the enhancement of the electromagnetic radiation and energetic particles coming from the Sun. Under such conditi...
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As the high latitude ionosphere is directly connected with outer space by means of the field line reconnection of the geomagnetic field through the magnetopause, it is highly sensitive to the enhancement of the electromagnetic radiation and energetic particles coming from the Sun. Under such conditions the ionosphere may become highly turbulent showing the presence of small-scale (from centimetres to meters) structures or irregularities imbedded in the large-scale (tens of kilometres) ambient ionosphere. These irregularities can produce short-term phase and amplitude fluctuations in the carrier frequency of the radio waves which pass through them, commonly called ionospheric amplitude and phase scintillations (see, e.g., Morrissey et al. 2004, and references therein). The high latitude ionosphere encounters significant fading, with the most intense fading depths in the polar cap regions and less intense fading in the auroral regions. Severe amplitude fading and strong phase scintillation affect the reliability of GPS navigational systems and satellite communications. As the scarceness of a continuous and systematic monitoring of ionospheric scintillations over polar and auroral regions, the deployment of network(s) of GPS receivers, opportunely configured to observe the ionosphere under quiet and stormy conditions, could represent an important achievement for both space weather purposes and scientific aims. In this paper, a general overview on ISACCO (Ionospheric Scintillations Arctic Campaign Coordinated Observation) is given. ISACCO is an Italian project to monitor ionospheric scintillations at polar regions by means of modified GPS receivers. After some historical and technical notes on the project, the paper presents examples of some of our current investigations based on the data acquired during the almost 3 years of the ISACCO project. Published 263-267 reserved |
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GPS Solutions 4/10(2006) De Franceschi G, Romano V, Alfonsi L, Perrone L, Pezzopane M, Zolesi B (2003) ISACCO (Ionospheric Scintillations Arctic Campaign Coordinated Observations) project at Ny- A ° lesund, In: Proceedings of ‘‘atmospheric remote sensing using satellite navigation systems, special symposium of the URSI Joint Working Group FG’’, Matera, Italy, October 2003 De Franceschi G, Romano V, Alfonsi L, Dodson A, Aquino M, Mitchell CN, Wernik AW, (2006) Dynamics of the high latitude patches and associated small scale irregularities (in preparation) Mitchell CN, Alfonsi L, De Franceschi G, Lester M, Romano V, Wernik AW (2005) GPS TEC and scintillation measurements from the polar ionosphere during the October 2003 storm. Geophys Res Lett 32(12):L12S03 DOI 10.1029/ 2004GL021644 Morrissey TN, Shallberg KW, Van Dierendonck AJ, Nicholson MJ (2004) GPS receiver performance characterization under realistic ionospheric phase scintillation environments. Radio Sci 39:RS1S20 DOI 10.1029/2002RS002838 Van Dierendonck AJ, Klobuchar J, Hua Q (1993) Ionospheric scintillation monitoring using commercial single frequency C/A code receivers. In: ION GPS-93 proceedings: sixth international technical meeting of the satellite division of the Institute of Navigation. Institute of Navigation, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp 1333–1342 http://hdl.handle.net/2122/2283 DOI 10.1007/s10291-006-0036-6 |
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ftingv:oai:www.earth-prints.org:2122/2283 2023-05-15T14:28:13+02:00 ISACCO: an Italian project to monitor the high latitudes ionosphere by means of GPS receivers De Franceschi, G. Alfonsi, Lu. Romano, V. De Franceschi, G.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia Alfonsi, Lu.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia Romano, V.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia 2006 330133 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2122/2283 en eng GPS Solutions 4/10(2006) De Franceschi G, Romano V, Alfonsi L, Perrone L, Pezzopane M, Zolesi B (2003) ISACCO (Ionospheric Scintillations Arctic Campaign Coordinated Observations) project at Ny- A ° lesund, In: Proceedings of ‘‘atmospheric remote sensing using satellite navigation systems, special symposium of the URSI Joint Working Group FG’’, Matera, Italy, October 2003 De Franceschi G, Romano V, Alfonsi L, Dodson A, Aquino M, Mitchell CN, Wernik AW, (2006) Dynamics of the high latitude patches and associated small scale irregularities (in preparation) Mitchell CN, Alfonsi L, De Franceschi G, Lester M, Romano V, Wernik AW (2005) GPS TEC and scintillation measurements from the polar ionosphere during the October 2003 storm. Geophys Res Lett 32(12):L12S03 DOI 10.1029/ 2004GL021644 Morrissey TN, Shallberg KW, Van Dierendonck AJ, Nicholson MJ (2004) GPS receiver performance characterization under realistic ionospheric phase scintillation environments. Radio Sci 39:RS1S20 DOI 10.1029/2002RS002838 Van Dierendonck AJ, Klobuchar J, Hua Q (1993) Ionospheric scintillation monitoring using commercial single frequency C/A code receivers. In: ION GPS-93 proceedings: sixth international technical meeting of the satellite division of the Institute of Navigation. Institute of Navigation, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp 1333–1342 http://hdl.handle.net/2122/2283 DOI 10.1007/s10291-006-0036-6 restricted Ionospheric irregularities GPS receiver 01. Atmosphere::01.01. Atmosphere::01.01.08. Instruments and techniques article 2006 ftingv https://doi.org/10.1029/2002RS002838 2022-07-29T06:04:24Z As the high latitude ionosphere is directly connected with outer space by means of the field line reconnection of the geomagnetic field through the magnetopause, it is highly sensitive to the enhancement of the electromagnetic radiation and energetic particles coming from the Sun. Under such conditions the ionosphere may become highly turbulent showing the presence of small-scale (from centimetres to meters) structures or irregularities imbedded in the large-scale (tens of kilometres) ambient ionosphere. These irregularities can produce short-term phase and amplitude fluctuations in the carrier frequency of the radio waves which pass through them, commonly called ionospheric amplitude and phase scintillations (see, e.g., Morrissey et al. 2004, and references therein). The high latitude ionosphere encounters significant fading, with the most intense fading depths in the polar cap regions and less intense fading in the auroral regions. Severe amplitude fading and strong phase scintillation affect the reliability of GPS navigational systems and satellite communications. As the scarceness of a continuous and systematic monitoring of ionospheric scintillations over polar and auroral regions, the deployment of network(s) of GPS receivers, opportunely configured to observe the ionosphere under quiet and stormy conditions, could represent an important achievement for both space weather purposes and scientific aims. In this paper, a general overview on ISACCO (Ionospheric Scintillations Arctic Campaign Coordinated Observation) is given. ISACCO is an Italian project to monitor ionospheric scintillations at polar regions by means of modified GPS receivers. After some historical and technical notes on the project, the paper presents examples of some of our current investigations based on the data acquired during the almost 3 years of the ISACCO project. Published 263-267 reserved Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Earth-Prints (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) Arctic Radio Science 39 1 n/a n/a |