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Climatology Of Plasmaspheric Total Electron Content Obtained From Jason 1 Satellite, Ja Soon Shim, Geonhwa Jee, Ludger Scherliess
Climatology Of Plasmaspheric Total Electron Content Obtained From Jason 1 Satellite, Ja Soon Shim, Geonhwa Jee, Ludger Scherliess
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We used more than 40 million total electron content (TEC) measurements obtained from the GPS TurboRogue Space Receiver receiver on board the Jason 1 satellite in order to investigate the global morphology of the plasmaspheric TEC (pTEC) including the variations with local time, latitude, longitude, season, solar cycle, and geomagnetic activity. The pTEC corresponds to the total electron content between Jason 1 (1336 km) and GPS (20,200 km) satellite altitudes. The pTEC data were collected during the 7 year period from January 2002 to December 2008. It was found that pTEC increases by about 10–30% from low to high solar …