SA31F-2382
Determining Ionospheric Irregularity Spectral Density Function from Japan GEONET
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Erin H Lay1, Max E. Light1, Peter A Parker1 and Charles Salvatore Carrano2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Abstract:
Japan’s GEONET GPS network is the densest GPS monitoring network in the world, with 1200+ receivers over the area of Japan. Measuring and calibrating the integrated total electron content (TEC) from each station has been done in many cases to provide detailed maps of ionospheric disturbances over Japan. We use TEC measurements from Japan’s GEONET array to determine an empirically derived description of the 2-dimensional scale sizes of spatial irregularities above Japan. The contributions from various scale sizes will be included in a statistical description for the irregularity spectral density (ISD) function. We will compare the statistics of the spatial irregularities between calm and moderately scintillated conditions.
