Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995adspr..16...95g&link_type=abstract
Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 16, no. 1, p. (1)95-(1)104
Physics
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Data Bases, Earth Ionosphere, Ion Concentration, Ion Distribution, Ionospheric Composition, Polar Regions, Annual Variations, Data Correlation, Diurnal Variations, Electron Density (Concentration), Mathematical Models, Molecular Interactions, Plasma Temperature, Reference Atmospheres
Scientific paper
A data base comprised of all available ionosphere satellite ion composition measurements - the Goddard Comprehensive Ionosphere Data Base (GCID) - has been set upon optical disks for convenient merging and accessing of data from different satellites. This data has recentely been expanded to include all accessible satellite electron density and plasma temperature measurements. This paper demonstrates with a couple examples, the potential of GCID as an alternative to empirical models for undertanding ionsophere physics and chemistry. Through binning techniques GCID provdes a tool that complements and improves on the International Reference Ionosphere model (IRI) in delineating the topology of high latitude ion composition. GCID provides at a glance a measure of the local statistical variabilty of the ion compostions that is not in empirical models such as IRI. Furthermusing the data to determine the spatial and geophysical parameter range over which the minor ion species are approximately in chemical equilibrium, the number of data points available for empirical ion composition models can be increased by using the statiscally more reliable neutral and electron empirical models to derive ions composition. Currently available empirical models are not capable of adequately defining the comples high latitude distribution - a measure of the variablity is needed.
Grebowsky Joseph M.
Hoegy Walter R.
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