Near real-time plasma irregularity monitoring by FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2

Shih-Ping Chen; Charles Lin; Rajesh Panthalingal Krishnanunni; Richard Eastes; Jong-Min Choi

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P (Space and Planetary Sciences ) » P-EM Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment

[P-EM20] Recent Advances in Ionosphere Observation and Modeling through New Observation Opportunities

convener:CHIYEN LIN(Center for Astronautical Physics and Engineering, National Central University, TAIWAN), Yen-Jung Wu(Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Yang-Yi Sun(China University of Geosciences), Charles Lin(Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University)

[PEM20-10] Near real-time plasma irregularity monitoring by FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2

*Shih-Ping Chen¹, Charles Lin¹, Rajesh Panthalingal Krishnanunni¹, Richard Eastes², Jong-Min Choi¹ (1.Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng-Kung University, 2.Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado)

Keywords:FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2, scintillation, irregularity

The global map of radio occultation scintillations is constructed by using the S4 index profiles of radio occultation (RO) observations onboard FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 (F7/C2). This study provides comparisons between the RO S4 and the rate of TEC index(ROTI) in Brazil region, coherent scatter radar observation of the Jicamarca Unattended Long-term Investigations of the Ionosphere and Atmosphere(JULIA), and the airglow monitoring of Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk(GOLD). Result shows that the geographic location of the RO S4 and ground-based observed irregularities are highly correlated, and the bottom side boundary of the EPBs is the major source of strong occultation scintillations in F-region.