Highlights Low-latitude topside ionosphere mismodelling made by NeQuick. Improving of the NeQuick topside representation through COSMIC-1 data. Different topside tests with different values of the NeQuick topside parameters.
Abstract This paper deals with the well-known mismodelling characterizing the NeQuick topside ionosphere at low latitudes, i.e., the fact that the model keeps the two electron density humps typical of the equatorial ionization anomaly as the altitude increases from the height of the F2-layer electron density peak, without merging them in a single peak above the geomagnetic equator as expected. This is because the NeQuick topside ionosphere modelling strongly depends on several bottomside ionosphere parameters, which causes an essential coupling between the topside and the bottomside that in many cases behave differently. This means that this kind of topside ionosphere modelling may lead to inaccurate results, as it is the maintenance at low latitudes of the electron density double hump structure in the topside as the altitude increases. On the base of some recently published results, this paper analyzes the role played by the three NeQuick scale height parameters H 0, g and r in the description of the electron density above the F2 layer peak height. The results of this work pave the way for a possible solution of this low-latitude NeQuick topside ionosphere mismodelling.
On the low-latitude NeQuick topside ionosphere mismodelling: The role of parameters H 0, g, and r
Advances in Space Research ; 72 , 4 ; 1224-1236
2023-04-07
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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