Correction of Electron Density Profiles in the Low Ionosphere Based on the Data of Vertical Sounding with the IRI Model


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Abstract

The method of correcting the daytime vertical profiles of electron plasma frequency in the low ionosphere from International Refererence Ionosphere (IRI) model in accordance with the measured data of the virtual heights and absorption of signal radiowaves (method А1) reflected from the bottom of E-region at vertical sounding (VS) is presented. The method is based on the replacement of the IRI model profile by an approximation of analytical dependence with parameters determined according to VS data and partially by the IRI model. The method is tested by the results of four joint ground-based and rocket experiments carried out in the 1970s at midlatitudes of the European part of Russia upon the launches of high-altitude geophysical rockets of the Vertical series. It is shown that the consideration of both virtual reflection heigths and absorption makes it possible to obtain electron density distributions that show the best agreement with the rocket measurements made at most height ranges in the D- and E-regions. In additional, the obtained distributions account more adequately than the IRI model for the contributions of D- and E-regions to absorption of signals reflected above these regions.

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P. F. Denisenko

Scientific Research Institute of Physics

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Email: denis@sfedu.ru
Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don, 344006

O. A. Maltseva

Scientific Research Institute of Physics

Email: denis@sfedu.ru
Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don, 344006

V. V. Sotsky

Scientific Research Institute of Physics

Email: denis@sfedu.ru
Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don, 344006

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