Abstract It has been a concern of space scientists and engineers for many decades to have a well-defined proxy to characterize the fluctuations experienced by radio-based signals propagating through the ionosphere. Scintillation indices were deduced using the signal intensity to show the level of fluctuations in phase and amplitude of radio signal passing through the ionosphere. Subsequently, more than two decades now, the rate of change of Total Electron Content (TEC) index (ROTI) was as well used to characterize the level of fluctuations associated to ionospheric irregularities on radio signals. This paper examines the level of relationship between the rate of change of TEC index (ROTI) and the ionospheric amplitude scintillation (S4) within the belt of equatorial ionization anomaly of West African sector. The study was carried out using the Scintillation Network Decision Aid (SCINDA) Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from ground-based stations located at Dakar (Senegal) and Cape Verde. The comparative analysis of ROTI and S4 was done with normalized ROTI. The results obtained have shown that the magnitude of normalized ROTI and S4 corresponds very well, higher in Cape Verde compared to Dakar. It was observed that the correlation coefficient could be ∼0.6 when all the satellites are used. However, the relationship increases with individual satellite in which the coefficient of correlation could be up to ∼0.97 and R2 ∼ 0.94. It can be concluded that the relationship between the S4 and ROTI depends on the location and the level of ionospheric disturbance condition as observed in this work.


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    Titel :

    Correlation analysis of normalized ROTI and S4 as observed during different geomagnetic conditions of the 2013 September equinox over the stations within EIA African sector


    Beteiligte:
    Abe, O.E. (Autor:in) / Migoya-Orué, Y.O. (Autor:in) / Radicella, S.M. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 72 , 3 ; 762-774


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-09-27


    Format / Umfang :

    13 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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