Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTID) modeling using a dense German GPS network

authored by: Zhiguo Deng, Steffen Schön, Hongping Zhang, Michael Bender, Jens Wickert
Abstract: The MSTIDs are wave-like perturbations of the ionospheric plasma, which cause the most common ionospheric disturbances in mid-latitude regions. Generally the MSTIDs have velocities of several hundred meters per second and wavelengths of several hundred kilometers. The wave-like effect of the MSTID is one of the main obstacles for accurate interpolation of ionospheric corrections in a medium-scale reference GPS network. In this paper we show a new method of detecting and modeling MSTIDs using dense German GPS network. The between-epoch single difference ionospheric delays from a medium scale dense GPS network are used to estimate the parameter of the MSTID e.g. amplitude, wavelength and velocity. The efficiency of the approach is tested with data from about 320 GPS stations in and near Germany. A MSTID wave moving from east to west across Germany was observed at September 27 in 2009. Its wavelength is about 302 km, with a period of ∼7 min and velocity of about 700 m/s.
Organisation(s): Institute of Geodesy
External Organisation(s): Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
Wuhan University
Type: Article
Journal: Advances in space research
Volume: 51
Pages: 1001-1007
No. of pages: 7
ISSN: 0273-1177
Publication date: 27.07.2012
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Space and Planetary Science, General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2012.07.022 (Access: Unknown)
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BibTeX

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title = "Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTID) modeling using a dense German GPS network",
abstract = "The MSTIDs are wave-like perturbations of the ionospheric plasma, which cause the most common ionospheric disturbances in mid-latitude regions. Generally the MSTIDs have velocities of several hundred meters per second and wavelengths of several hundred kilometers. The wave-like effect of the MSTID is one of the main obstacles for accurate interpolation of ionospheric corrections in a medium-scale reference GPS network. In this paper we show a new method of detecting and modeling MSTIDs using dense German GPS network. The between-epoch single difference ionospheric delays from a medium scale dense GPS network are used to estimate the parameter of the MSTID e.g. amplitude, wavelength and velocity. The efficiency of the approach is tested with data from about 320 GPS stations in and near Germany. A MSTID wave moving from east to west across Germany was observed at September 27 in 2009. Its wavelength is about 302 km, with a period of ∼7 min and velocity of about 700 m/s.",
keywords = "Dense GPS network, GPS, MSTID",
author = "Zhiguo Deng and Steffen Sch{\"o}n and Hongping Zhang and Michael Bender and Jens Wickert",
note = "Funding information: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , Grant GE 1604/2-3 . We would like thank the German SAPOS to provide the GPS data.",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1016/j.asr.2012.07.022",
language = "English",
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journal = "Advances in space research",
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