Ionospheric peak value of F2 layer （NmF2） is an important parameter in the ionosphere, which has important applications in short-wave communication, ionospheric modeling and so on. In this paper, the empirical ortho...Ionospheric peak value of F2 layer （NmF2） is an important parameter in the ionosphere, which has important applications in short-wave communication, ionospheric modeling and so on. In this paper, the empirical orthogonal function （EOF） decompo- sition method is used to analyze the NmFz obtained from the occultation data. Daily spatial distribution of NmF2 at the same time is relatively even. Variance of first modal is much larger than the other modals. A local wavelet power spectrum （LWPS） method is applied to analysis the cycle of Flo.7 index and time coefficient of first modal. The result shows that they have simi- lar cycle distribution, indicating that Flo.7 index is the main factor affecting variation of NmF〉 A function is established be- tween the tine coefficient of first modal and F10.7 index, average F10.7 index value of early 81 days fp by least squares method. The results show that contribution coefficient offp is negative which indicates that fp has an inert effect existing in the iono- sphere. Contribution coefficient of F10.7 is positive, which is consistent with the fact that it has an anomaly in winter/spring seasons. In summary, it is feasible to establish a mid-latitude empirical NmF2 model in northern hemisphere based on occulta- tion data and EOF decomposition method.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40505005)the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories(Grant No.Y22612A33S)
文摘Ionospheric peak value of F2 layer （NmF2） is an important parameter in the ionosphere, which has important applications in short-wave communication, ionospheric modeling and so on. In this paper, the empirical orthogonal function （EOF） decompo- sition method is used to analyze the NmFz obtained from the occultation data. Daily spatial distribution of NmF2 at the same time is relatively even. Variance of first modal is much larger than the other modals. A local wavelet power spectrum （LWPS） method is applied to analysis the cycle of Flo.7 index and time coefficient of first modal. The result shows that they have simi- lar cycle distribution, indicating that Flo.7 index is the main factor affecting variation of NmF〉 A function is established be- tween the tine coefficient of first modal and F10.7 index, average F10.7 index value of early 81 days fp by least squares method. The results show that contribution coefficient offp is negative which indicates that fp has an inert effect existing in the iono- sphere. Contribution coefficient of F10.7 is positive, which is consistent with the fact that it has an anomaly in winter/spring seasons. In summary, it is feasible to establish a mid-latitude empirical NmF2 model in northern hemisphere based on occulta- tion data and EOF decomposition method.
