More total electron content climatology from TOPEX/Poseidon measurements

We have used the TOPEX satellite data set to compare climatologies of total electron content (TEC) measurements from the dual-frequency altimeter with the Doppler orbitography and radiopositioning integrated by satellite (DOR IS) TEC results and with the international reference ionosphere (IRI) and B ent model predictions corresponding to the satellite measurements. We have used the TOPEX measurements from launch in 1992 through 1997 to build a dat abase that includes time, geographic and geomagnetic coordinates of the mea surement, geomagnetic indices (Kp, previous Kp, hemispheric power, and inte gral of hemispheric power over the previous 36 hours), solar index (F10.7), TOPEX and DORIS TEC measurements, and empirical model (IRI and Bent) resul ts corresponding to the TOPEX measurements. We have binned the measurements in a magnetic local time, magnetic latitude coordinate system to produce g lobal maps of TEC. We present climatological differences between TOPEX TEC and DORIS measurements as well as between TOPEX and the two empirical model s. The maps were constructed using all appropriate TOPEX TEC data, DORIS TE C measurements, and the corresponding Bent and IRI model results for solar minimum conditions.