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Principles of Processing and Selection of Radio Occultation Observation Data for Investigating the Ionospheric F2-Layer

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Programs designed for automatic collection and processing of data on the ionospheric F2-layer parameters obtained by the radio occultation method are described. The programs developed make it possible to analyze the dependence of the parameters h m F2, foF2, and N m F2 on the level of solar activity with a given temporal and spatial resolution, which is important in solving scientific and applied problems. Global maps of the distribution of the maximum electron density of the F2-layer are presented for different seasons and times (UT and LT). The diurnal and seasonal variations of the normalized parameter N m F2 are compared with data calculated by empirical and numerical ionospheric models and with ionosonde data. The results calculated in this study reproduce all existing ionospheric anomalies and demonstrate a qualitative agreement with the data obtained by different methods. This indicates that radio occultation observation data can be efficiently used in theoretical research and empirical modeling of the ionosphere.

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  1. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, West Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kaliningrad, Russia

    N. V. Chirik, M. V. Klimenko, V. V. Klimenko & N. A. Koren’kova

  2. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kaliningrad, Russia

    M. V. Klimenko

  3. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. T. Karpachev

  4. Institute of Solar–Terrestrial Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk, Russia

    K. G. Ratovskii

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Chirik, M.V. Klimenko, V.V. Klimenko, A.T. Karpachev, K.G. Ratovskii, N.A. Koren’kova, 2017, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2017, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 66–74.

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Chirik, N.V., Klimenko, M.V., Klimenko, V.V. et al. Principles of Processing and Selection of Radio Occultation Observation Data for Investigating the Ionospheric F2-Layer. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 11, 1038–1046 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793117060197

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