Electrodynamics and temporal characteristics of the East African ionosphere inferred from ground-based observations (Invited)

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsa43c..02d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SA43C-02

Physics

[2411] Ionosphere / Electric Fields, [2415] Ionosphere / Equatorial Ionosphere, [2437] Ionosphere / Ionospheric Dynamics, [2439] Ionosphere / Ionospheric Irregularities

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Information on the characteristics of the equatorial ionosphere inferred from observations is vital to understand its electrodynamics. In this paper we present the characteristics of the East African ionosphere inferred from ground based observations. These observations are made using chain of GPS receivers and the daily and seasonally characteristics of the ionosphere are presented. We have also used an empirical model to reproduce these observations. This is done by comparing the total electron content (TEC) measurements obtained from a ground-based GPS receiver and the corresponding values obtained from the empirical model, which is driven solely by the daily values of F10.7 solar index as input. We found that the model is capable of reproducing the measurement values quite well in the time intervals 0200- 0400 UT for a year. Also, we have shown that the model gives better approximation of the real measurements in June and December Solstices than in March and October equinox. We have discussed the possible electrodynamics scenarios that could yield these observational results.

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