Analysis of different propagation models for the  estimation of the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere with an ensemble Kalman filter

Gerzen, Tatjana; Minkwitz, David; Schmidt, Michael; Erdogan, Eren

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1171-2020

Articles | Volume 38, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1171-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1171-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 38, issue 6

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10 Nov 2020

Regular paper |

| 10 Nov 2020

Analysis of different propagation models for the estimation of the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere with an ensemble Kalman filter

Tatjana Gerzen, David Minkwitz, Michael Schmidt, and Eren Erdogan

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RC1: 'For my comments see attached PDF: angeo-2020-39-supplement.pdf', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Respond Ref. 1', Tatjana Gerzen, 21 Jul 2020
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- AC2: 'Respond Ref. 2', Tatjana Gerzen, 26 Aug 2020

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Short summary

We focus on reconstructing the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere and assimilating the space-based Global Navigation Satellite System slant total electron content (STEC) measurements with an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF). We present methods for realizing the propagation step without a physical model. We investigate the capability of our estimations to reconstruct independent STEC and electron density measurements. We compare the EnKF approach with SMART+ and the 3D ionosphere model NeQuick.