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XUE Shixiang, JIANG Chunhua, MA Zhengzheng, XU Bin, DING Guangxing, YANG Guobin, ZHANG Yuannong, ZHAO Zhengyu. A Comparative Study between the Ionospheric f0F2 from Nighttime OI 135.6 nm Emission and Ionosonde Observations (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2023, 43(3): 456-465 doi: 10.11728/cjss2023.03.2022-0018
Citation: XUE Shixiang, JIANG Chunhua, MA Zhengzheng, XU Bin, DING Guangxing, YANG Guobin, ZHANG Yuannong, ZHAO Zhengyu. A Comparative Study between the Ionospheric f0F2 from Nighttime OI 135.6 nm Emission and Ionosonde Observations (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2023, 43(3): 456-465 doi: 10.11728/cjss2023.03.2022-0018
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A Comparative Study between the Ionospheric f0F2 from Nighttime OI 135.6 nm Emission and Ionosonde Observations

doi: 10.11728/cjss2023.03.2022-0018 cstr: 32142.14.cjss2023.03.2022-0018
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    School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072

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    National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107

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    Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033

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    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055

  • Received Date: 2022-05-06
  • Accepted Date: 2022-06-24
  • Rev Recd Date: 2022-12-01
    • Available Online: 2023-07-04
    Abstract
  • The ionosphere is the part of the upper atmosphere which is ionized by solar radiation. There are a variety of ground-based and space-based remote sensing and in situ instruments to study the ionosphere. Recently, an effective method, called passive optical remote sensing technique, is widely used to study the ionosphere. It utilizes natural airglow (atoms and molecules frequently emit light to shed their excess energy) in the ionosphere. In the electromagnetic spectrum, the far ultraviolet light emissions are prominent in the ionosphere and could be used to monitor the ionosphere. During the nighttime, the 135.6 nm spectral line is excited by the radiation recombination process of F region O+ and e– and the mutual neutralization process of O+ and O– in the ionosphere. There is a strong correlation between the intensity of the spectral line and the maximum electronic density of ionospheric F2 layer (NmF2). Based on the physical model in which the OI 135.6 nm emission is proportional to the square of NmF2, the retrieval algorithm is established for different longitude, latitude, local time, season and solar activity. In this paper, the critical frequency of ionospheric F2 region (f0F2) is retrieved from 135.6 nm emission observed by the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager (SSUSI) instrument on board the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and then the estimated results are compared with the detection results of ground-based ionosonde. As the results show, during the high-solar activity year (2013), the data with relative error less than or equal to 20% accounted for 93.0%, and the average relative error is about 7.08%. During the low-solar activity years (2017), the data with relative error less than or equal to 20% accounted for 80.8%, and the average relative error is about 12.64%. Finally, we analyze the difference of retrieval accuracy of the algorithm during the high and low solar activity years.

     

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