Journal
JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS
Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 683-691Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(03)00085-3
Keywords
GPS; ionosonde; GPSMET; occultation; electron density 3D description
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Dual frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers provide integrated total electron content (TEC) along the ray path (slant TEC, affected by a bias). By inverting this observable, it is possible to obtain the vertical total electron content with some assumptions about the horizontal structure of the ionosphere. The large number of permanent receivers distributed around the world provide enough information to obtain such TEC observables with high spatial and temporal resolutions. Nevertheless, the geometry (mainly vertical) of the ground GPS observations does not allow to solve the vertical structure of electron density of the ionosphere. Mixing different kinds of complementary data in a tomographic context helps to overcome this problem. Several works have obtained successful results achieved by combining occultation and ground GPS data to estimate the local three-dimensional structure of ionospheric electron density. This paper proposes the use of just ground data to obtain similar or better results. To do this, the ground GPS data are mixed with vertical profiles of electron density derived from ionosonde data instead of GPS occultation observations. In this paper, the complementarity between vertical profiles of electron density (estimated using the NeQuick model) and ground GPS data (from GPS IGS permanent network) are shown as well as the performance of the resulting combination. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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