Space Weather: Construction of a Web-based Empirical Model of the Earth's Ionosphere Using Incoherent Scatter Radar Data

该建议是为了利用1970年至今的非相干散射雷达数据建立一个综合性的基于网络的电离层区域经验模型。 该模型将包括两个部分：第一，在马萨诸塞州Millstone Hill测量的基本和导出标量参数的模型（42.6o N），包括电子密度Ne、电子和离子温度（Te和Ti）、中性纬向风和外逸层温度;以及第二，ExB等离子体漂移和对应的静电势图案的模型，如Millstone Hill和格陵兰Sondrestrom设施（67.0oN）的测量结果所示。 在国家空间气象方案实施计划中，已确定了将要建模的参数，这些参数是必须根据客户的运行支持要求进行规定和预测的重要参数。 所有这些参数也被NSWP的电离层-热层（IT）小组确定为确定电离层-热层（IT）系统状态和条件的第一、第二或第三优先参数。

This proposal is for the construction of a comprehensive web-based regional empirical model of the ionosphere using incoherent scatter radar (ISR) data from the period 1970-present. This model will include two parts: first, a model of basic and derived scalar parameters as measured at Millstone Hill, Massachusetts (42.6o N), including electron density Ne, electron and ion temperature (Te and Ti), neutral meridional wind, and exospheric temperature; and second, a model of the ExB plasma drifts and corresponding electrostatic potential patterns, as obtained from measurements at Millstone Hill and at the Sondrestrom facility in Greenland (67.0oN). The parameters that will be modeled have been identified in the National Space Weather Program (NSWP) Implementation Plan as important ones which must be specified and forecast in response to customer operational support requirements. All of them have also been identified by the NSWP Metrics Panel as either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd priority parameters which define the state and condition of the ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system.