A study on Nighttime Winter Anomaly (NWA) and other related Mid-latitude Summer Nighttime Anomaly (MSNA) in the light of International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) – Model |
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Authors: | Sheetal P Karia JeongHeon Kim Abimbola O Afolayan Tien I Lin |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Applied Physics, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat 395007, India;2. Department of Geology and Space Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305764, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Electrical Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan, 43600, Malaysia;4. Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | The ionospheric Nighttime Winter Anomaly (NWA) is a feature observed in the Northern Hemisphere at the American and in the Southern Hemisphere at the Asian longitude sector under low solar activity conditions. Jakowski et al. (2015) analyzed ground-based GPS derived TEC and peak electron density data from radio occultation measurements on Formosat-3/COSMIC satellites and confirmed the persistence of the phenomenon. Further, they assumed that Mid-latitude Summer Nighttime Anomaly (MSNA) and related special anomalies such as the Weddell Sea Anomaly (WSA) and the Okhotsk Sea Anomaly (OSA) are closely related to the NWA via enhanced wind-induced uplifting of the ionosphere. The aim of this paper is to study the factors causing these anomalies and also to investigate if these anomalies are re-produced by IRI. The results show that IRI model does include the NWA effect, though at a different longitude and could be improved for better predictions. The IRI-2016 model does show WSA in TEC but not in NmF2. Further, the IRI-2016 model could clearly predict the OSA both in NmF2 and TEC. |
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Keywords: | International Reference Model (IRI) Nighttime Winter Anomaly (NWA) Weddell Sea Anomaly (WSA) Okhotsk Sea Anomaly (OSA) Mid latitude Summer Nighttime Anomaly (MSNA) |
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