Variability study of ionospheric total electron content at crest of equatorial anomaly in China from 1997 to 2007

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• 作者：Zhenzhong Xu^a ; ^b ; ^{283465823@qq.com} ; Weimin Wang^a ; Nan Zhou^a ; Xiaofei Song^a ; Haotian Zhu^a
• 关键词：Wuhan station ; Total electron content (TEC) ; Equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) ; Winter anomaly
• 刊名：Advances in Space Research
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：6_02731177
• 类别：et
• 出版时间：1 July, 2012
• 卷：50
• 期：1
• 页码：70-76
• 文件大小：1268 K

摘要

The variation of TEC data at Wuhan station (geographic coordinate: 30.5掳N, 114.4掳E; geomagnetic coordinate: 19.2掳N, 183.8掳E) at crest of equatorial anomaly in China from January 1997 to December 2007 were analyzed. Variability with solar activity, annual, semiannual, diurnal and seasonal variation were also analyzed. The MSIS00 model and ISR model were used to analyze the possible mechanisms of the variabilities found in the results. The TEC data in 1997 and 2001 deduced from another crest station Xiamen (geographic coordinate: 24.4掳N, 118.1掳E; geomagnetic coordinate: 13.2掳N, 187.4掳E) were used to contrast. Analysis results show that long-term variations of TEC at Xiamen station are mainly controlled by the variations of solar activities. Typical diurnal variation behaves as a minimum of the TEC in the pre-dawn hours around 05:00-06:00LT and a maximum on the afternoon hours around 13:00-15:00LT. Some features like the semiannual anomaly and winter anomaly in TEC have been reported. The anomaly may be the result of common action of the electric field over the magnetic equatorial and the [O/N₂] at the crest station.