New Higher-Order Correction of GNSS RO Bending Angles Accounting for Ionospheric Asymmetry: Evaluation of Performance and Added Value

Autor:	M. Schwaerz, Stig Syndergaard, Congliang Liu, Julia Danzer, Yueqiang Sun, Gottfried Kirchengast
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Science 01 natural sciences Mesosphere Physics::Geophysics Kappa correction approach GNSS radio occultation 0103 physical sciences bending angle retrieval residual ionospheric errors bi-local correction approach Radio occultation 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Stratosphere Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Physics Geodesy Earth's magnetic field GNSS applications Physics::Space Physics General Earth and Planetary Sciences Satellite Ionosphere
Zdroj:	Remote Sensing; Volume 12; Issue 21; Pages: 3637 Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 3637, p 3637 (2020)
ISSN:	2072-4292
DOI:	10.3390/rs12213637
Popis:	The residual ionospheric error (RIE) from higher-order terms in the refractive index is not negligible when using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) data for climate and meteorology applications in the stratosphere. In this study, a new higher-order bending angle RIE correction named “Bi-local correction approach” has been implemented and evaluated, which accounts for the ray path splitting of the dual-frequency GNSS signals, the altitude of the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite, the ionospheric inbound (GNSS to tangent point) vs. outbound (tangent point to LEO) asymmetry, and the geomagnetic field. Statistical results based on test-day ensembles of RO events show that, over the upper stratosphere and mesosphere, the order of magnitude of the mean total RIE in the bi-local correction approach is 0.01 μrad. Related to this, the so-called electron-density-squared (Ne2) and geomagnetic (BNe) terms appear to be dominant and comparable in magnitude. The BNe term takes negative or positive values, depending on the angle between the geomagnetic field vector and the direction of RO ray paths, while the Ne2 term is generally negative. We evaluated the new approach against the existing “Kappa approach” and the standard linear dual-frequency correction of bending angles and found it to perform well and in many average conditions similar to the simpler Kappa approach. On top of this, the bi-local approach can provide added value for RO missions with low LEO altitudes and for regional-scale applications, where its capacity to account for the ionospheric inbound-outbound asymmetry as well as for the geomagnetic term plays out.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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