Validation of Ionospheric Modeled TEC in the Equatorial Ionosphere During the 2013 March and 2021 November Geomagnetic Storms

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• Journal Title:
  Space Weather
• Personal Author:
  Chou, Min‐Yang ; Yue, Jia ; Wang, Jack ; Huba, J. D. ; El Alaoui, Mostafa ; Kuznetsova, Maria M. ; Rastätter, Lutz ; Shim, Ja Soon ; Fang, Tzu‐Wei ; Meng, Xing ; Fuller‐Rowell, Dominic ; Retterer, John M.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; SWPC (Space Weather Prediction Center)
• Description:
  This paper presents the validation of modeled total electron content (TEC) from 14 ionospheric models, including empirical, physics-based, and data assimilation (DA) models, hosted by the NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This study aims to assess the current progress and capability of the CCMC-hosted ionospheric models in capturing the storm time ionosphere during the low and moderate solar flux years. We focus on the low-latitude ionosphere (i.e., ±40° in magnetic latitude) and compare the modeled TEC with the Madrigal TEC during the 2013 March and 2021 November storms. Multiple metrics are used to quantitatively
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Science
• Source:
  Space Weather, 21(6)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2023sw003480
• ISSN:
  1542-7390 ; 1542-7390
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY-NC
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f594bb75184b73acb4c9df84d802a09d6155e93410afae0fcfaad4a275358cba
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/52858/noaa_52858_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 13.28 MB ]