A MODEL-INDEPENDENT ALGORITHM FOR IONOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY - 2 - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

Authors
FEHMERS GC KAMP LPJ SLUIJTER FW SPOELSTRA TAT
Citation
Gc. Fehmers et al., A MODEL-INDEPENDENT ALGORITHM FOR IONOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY - 2 - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS, Radio science, 33(1), 1998, pp. 165-173
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Remote Sensing","Geochemitry & Geophysics","Instument & Instrumentation","Metereology & Atmospheric Sciences",Telecommunications
Journal title
Radio science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00486604
Volume
33
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
165 - 173
Database
ISI
SICI code
0048-6604(1998)33:1<165:AMAFIT>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This paper presents the results of an ionospheric tomography experimen t over midlatitude Europe. The campaign yielded 539 reconstructions ov er a 45-day period in spring 1995. Special attention is paid to the pe rformance of the reconstruction algorithm, specifically by comparison with ionosonde data. Tomography and soundings tend to agree on electro n density, but they do not agree on the height of maximum electron den sity: tomography seems to overestimate H-max. Whereas tomography finds a daily oscillation in H-max between 250 km (daytime) and 450 km (nig httime), the soundings indicate an oscillation between 200 and 250 km.