Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTID) modeling using a dense German GPS network |
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Authors: | Zhiguo Deng,Steffen Schö n,Hongping Zhang,Michael Bender,Jens Wickert |
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Affiliation: | 1. Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany;2. Institut für Erdmessung (IfE), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany;3. Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China |
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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. |
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Keywords: | MSTID GPS Dense GPS network |
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