Latitudinal variations of TEC over Europe obtained from GPS observations
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Date
2004
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Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
Abstract
GPS technique has opened broad possibilities to study the TEC distribution on a regular basis. In this paper, the latitudinal dependence of TEC over Europe for geographic latitudes ranging from 40°N to 75°N is presented. We discuss the day-to-day variations of the latitudinal TEC profiles for a period of 1999 to 2001 for both quiet and disturbed magnetic conditions. More than 4300 TEC profiles were created from the TEC maps with a one-hour interval. GPS data from 65 European permanent stations were used to produce the TEC maps. The comparison of GPS-derived TEC profiles with the IRI model is also discussed.
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Ionosphere (mid-latitude ionosphere; ionospheric disturbances)
Citation
P. Wielgosz et al, "Latitudinal variations of TEC over Europe obtained from GPS observations," Annales Geophysicae 22, no. 2 (2004), doi:10.5194/angeo-22-405-2004