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Evolution Of Equatorial Ionospheric Bubbles During A Large Auroral Electrojet Increase In The Recovery Phase Of A Magnetic Storm, M. J. Keskinen, S. L. Ossakow, Bela G. Fejer, J. Emmert
Evolution Of Equatorial Ionospheric Bubbles During A Large Auroral Electrojet Increase In The Recovery Phase Of A Magnetic Storm, M. J. Keskinen, S. L. Ossakow, Bela G. Fejer, J. Emmert
Bela G. Fejer
[1] We present a model and observations of the evolution of equatorial ionospheric bubbles during a large auroral electrojet (AE) index increase in the recovery phase of a geomagnetic storm. Using a three-dimensional time-dependent numerical simulation model, we find, for the 19–21 October 1998 storm, that the equatorial bubble evolution is different during storm time as compared to quiet time conditions. We have found that the storm time vertical drift in conjunction with reduced off-equatorial E region shorting is the primary mechanism that distinguishes the large AE increase recovery phase storm time evolution from the quiet time case. Comparison of …
Utah State University Global Assimilation Of Ionospheric Measurements Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter Model Of The Ionosphere: Model Description And Validation, Ludger Scherliess, Robert W. Schunk, Jan Josef Sojka, Donald C. Thompson, Lie Zhu
Utah State University Global Assimilation Of Ionospheric Measurements Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter Model Of The Ionosphere: Model Description And Validation, Ludger Scherliess, Robert W. Schunk, Jan Josef Sojka, Donald C. Thompson, Lie Zhu
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The Utah State University Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter (GMKF) was developed as part of the Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) program. The GMKF uses a physics-based model of the ionosphere and a Gauss-Markov Kalman filter as a basis for assimilating a diverse set of real-time (or near real-time) observations. The physics-based model is the Ionospheric Forecast Model (IFM), which accounts for five ion species and covers the E region, F region, and the topside from 90 to 1400 km altitude. Within the GMKF, the IFM derived ionospheric densities constitute a background density field on which perturbations are superimposed based on …