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Topside ionospheric Vary-Chap scale height retrieved from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 data at midlatitudes

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Wang, Sicheng; Huang, Sixun; Fang, Hanxian
刊名ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
出版日期2015
卷号56期号:5页码:893-899
关键词Vary-Chap scale height Topside ionosphere at midlatitudes IRI-2012 model
ISSN号0273-1177
通讯作者Huang, SX (reprint author), PLA Univ Sci & Technol, Inst Meteorol & Oceanog, Nanjing 211101, Jiangsu, Peoples R China.
英文摘要An alpha-Chapman function with a continuously varying scale height can be used to describe the topside F2 vertical electron density profile that seamlessly connects the ionosphere with the plasmasphere. The local time, seasonal, latitudinal and longitudinal variations of the Vary-Chap scale heights (VCSHs) in 2007 at midlatitudes are investigated using the electron density profiles retrieved from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 ionospheric radio occultation observations. The results show that the VCSHs at 400-550 km have prominent attitudinal dependence and diurnal, seasonal variations, and are not tightly correlated with the neutral or plasma-scale heights. The values of the VCSHs in the daytime are larger than those in the nighttime in spring, autumn and winter, comparable and even larger nighttime ones can be detected in summer. The VCSHs change slowly from the midnight to predawn and change abruptly around the sunrise, and the daytime maximum are in winter and the minimum are in summer. In the midlatitudes, the daytime VCSHs decrease with latitude, while at nighttime, the latitudinal changes of VCSHs are not so distinct. The daytime VCSHs in northern hemisphere are larger than those in southern hemisphere. The VCSHs have complicated longitudinal variations and no obvious wavelike structures. What is more, the IRI-2012 model is capable of reproducing the trend of the diurnal, seasonal and latitudinal VCSH variations. But the values have large differences with those retrieved from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 data. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
收录类别SCI ; EI
语种英语
源URL[http://ir.nssc.ac.cn/handle/122/4631]  
专题国家空间科学中心_空间科学部
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Wang, Sicheng,Huang, Sixun,Fang, Hanxian. Topside ionospheric Vary-Chap scale height retrieved from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 data at midlatitudes[J]. ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH,2015,56(5):893-899.
APA Wang, Sicheng,Huang, Sixun,&Fang, Hanxian.(2015).Topside ionospheric Vary-Chap scale height retrieved from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 data at midlatitudes.ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH,56(5),893-899.
MLA Wang, Sicheng,et al."Topside ionospheric Vary-Chap scale height retrieved from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 data at midlatitudes".ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH 56.5(2015):893-899.

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