BEIDOU AND GPS DUAL CONSTELLATION VECTOR TRACKING DURING IONOSPHERE SCINTILLATION AT EQUATORIAL REGION

The equatorial anomaly is the dominant structure in free electron concentration in the tropical ionosphere. Due to its edges (crests) which are characterised by steep latitudinal gradients in TEC and are temporally and spatially variable, it is one of the ionospheric regions most difficult to image with inversion methods. In this paper we reconstruct an International Reference Ionosphere model ...

With the successful implementation of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) for the North America, there is interest in implementing similar systems in other parts of the world. The ionosphere over certain parts of the globe, notably equatorial regions and Brazil in particular, can have a far greater impact on the signals received from the satellites. The Ionospheric corrections form an inte...

[1] Using 8 years of ionospheric drift measurements from the low-latitude JULIA (Jicamarca Unattended Long-term Investigations of the Ionosphere and Atmosphere) radar and the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field data from the ACE (Advance Composition Explorer) satellite, we study the characteristics of the prompt penetration of electric fields to the equatorial ionosphere. A large datab...

The ionosphere is the major contributor of errors in Global Positioning System (GPS), especially during the 11-year sunspot cycle. The incoming 11-year sunspot cycle is expected to peak in 2013. The ionosphere condition is distinctly severe during ionospheric disturbances caused by high solar activity, which raises the question of how will this affect the ionosphere in the equatorial region, es...

Through respectively adding September DE3 tide and March DE3 tide at the low boundary of Global Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Electrodynamics Model, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GCITEM-IGGCAS), we simulate the influence of DE3 tide on the equinoctial asymmetry of the zonal mean ionospheric electron density. The influence of DE3 tide on the equinoctial asym...

[1] The most important source of electrodynamic disturbances in the equatorial ionosphere during the main phase of a storm is the prompt penetration electric field (PPEF) originating from the high-latitude region. It has been known that such an electric field is correlated with the magnetospheric convection or interplanetary electric field. Here we show a unique case, in which the electric fiel...

Equatorial ionosphere poses a challenge to any algorithm that is used for tomographic reconstruction because of the phenomena like the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) and Equatorial Spread F (ESF). Any tomographic reconstruction of ionospheric density distributions in the equatorial region is not acceptable if it does not image these phenomena, which exhibit large spatial and temporal varia...

[1] Data Interpolating Empirical Orthogonal Functions (DINEOFs) are a data-based method for determining a few orthogonal basis functions that optimally reproduce a given data set. This technique is applied to meridional drift measurements performed by the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) onboard the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) as well as electro...