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TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES
卷 15, 期 4, 页码 589-607出版社
CHINESE GEOSCIENCE UNION
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2004.15.4.589(A)
关键词
radio occultation; GPS/MET; ionospheric profiling; Abel inversion; total electron content (TEC)
The retrieval processes of ionospheric profiling from radio occulation observations usually assume spherical symmetry of electron density distribution at the locality of occultation and use the Abel integral transform to invert the measured total electron content (TEC) values. In this paper, we have considered the effect of large-scale horizontal gradient and/or inhomogenous electron density and developed a compensation procedure for measured TEC values through several close-up occultation observation. The compensated TEC values are then used to yield electron densities through the Abel inversion. In order to assess the accuracy of GPS/MET ionospheric electron density retrievals, coincidences of the Chung-Li digisonde data with observed GPS/MET occultations have been examined. From 232 matches during the GPS/MET mission, the rms f(0)F(2) differences between the digisonde measurements and the GPS/MET retrievals are improved from 1.58 MHz to 1.41MHz. Further validation of the improved retrieval processes has also been investigated by means of over thirty-eight thousand simulated occultation observation within a reference GPS.MET experiment using the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) 2001 model. The results show successful improvement of overestimates (underestimates) on low (high) retrieval f(0)F(2).
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