NDLI: Spherical cap harmonic model for mapping and predicting regional TEC

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Author	Liu, Jingbin Chen, Ruizhi Wang, Zemin Zhang, Hongping
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	An approach to modeling the regional ionospheric total electron content (TEC) based on spherical cap harmonic analysis is presented. This approach not only provides a better regional TEC mapping accuracy, but also the capability for ionospheric model prediction based on spectrum analysis and least squares collocation. Unlike conventional approaches, which predict the immediate TEC with models using current observations, the spherical cap harmonic approach utilizes models using past observations to predict a model which will provide future TEC values. A significant advantage in comparison with conventional approaches is that the spherical cap harmonic approach can be used to predict the long-term TEC with reasonable accuracy. This study processes a set of GPS data with an observation time span of 1 year from two GPS networks in China. The TEC mapping accuracy of the spherical cap harmonic model is compared with the polynomial model and the global ionosphere model from IGS. The results show that the spherical cap harmonic model has a better TEC mapping accuracy with smoother residual distributions in both temporal and spatial domains. The TEC prediction with the spherical cap harmonic model has been investigated for both short- and long-term intervals. For the short-term interval, the prediction accuracies for the latencies of 1-day, 2-days, and 3-days are 2.5 TECU, 3.5 TECU, and 4.5 TECU, respectively. For the long-term interval, the prediction accuracy is 4.5 TECU for a 2-month latency.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	119
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10805370
Journal	GPS Solutions
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15211886
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2010-06-23
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	GPS Ionosphere TEC mapping Regional ionosphere model Ionosphere TEC prediction Spherical cap harmonic analysis Electrical Engineering Automotive Engineering Meteorology/Climatology Geophysics/Geodesy Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences

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