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Total electron content (TEC) variability at Los Alamos, New Mexico: A comparative study: FORTE‐derived TEC analysis
Author(s) -
Huang Zhen,
RousselDupré Robert
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/2004rs003202
Subject(s) - tec , total electron content , national laboratory , environmental science , earth's magnetic field , geomagnetic storm , satellite , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , physics , ionosphere , geophysics , astronomy , engineering physics , quantum mechanics , magnetic field
Data collected from Fast On‐Orbit Recording of Transient Events (FORTE) satellite–received Los Alamos Portable Pulser (LAPP) signals during 1997–2002 are used to derive the total electron content (TEC) at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The LAPP‐derived TECs at Los Alamos are analyzed for diurnal, seasonal, interannual, and 27‐day solar cycle variations. Several aspects in deriving TEC are analyzed, including slant to vertical TEC conversion, quartic effects on transionosperic signals, and geomagnetic storm effects on the TEC variance superimposed on the averaged TEC values.