Evaluation of Ionospheric Parameters Obtained by Inverting O II 83.4 nm Dayglow Profiles from RAIDS
George Geddes, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, Supriya Chakrabarti, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology, Lowell, MA, United States, Tim Cook, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States and Ewan S Douglas, University of Arizona, Department of Astronomy, Tucson, AZ, United States
Abstract:
We test ionospheric parameters obtained by inverting O II 83.4 nm dayglow profiles against coincident ground-based measurements of electron density. Limb profiles from the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) EUV Spectrograph on the International Space Station (ISS) are compared to a radiative transfer model which assumes a Chapman-α electron density profile fit to an independent ground-based measurement.
