A Model for the Sounding Rocket Measurement on an Ionospheric E-F Valley at the Hainan Low Latitude Station

WANG Zheng(王铮); SHI Jiankui(史建魁); GUAN Yibing(关燚炳); LIU Chao(刘超); ZHU Guangwu(朱光武); Klaus TORKAR; Martin FREDRICH

doi:10.1088/1009-0630/16/4/03

Plasma Science and Technology > 2014 > 16(4): 316-319. > DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/4/03

WANG Zheng(王铮), SHI Jiankui(史建魁), GUAN Yibing(关燚炳), LIU Chao(刘超), ZHU Guangwu(朱光武), Klaus TORKAR, Martin FREDRICH. A Model for the Sounding Rocket Measurement on an Ionospheric E-F Valley at the Hainan Low Latitude Station[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2014, 16(4): 316-319. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/4/03

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A Model for the Sounding Rocket Measurement on an Ionospheric E-F Valley at the Hainan Low Latitude Station

1 National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 2 Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz A-8042, Austria 3 Graz Technique University, Graz A-8042, Austria

Funds: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41274146) and the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratory in China

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To understand the physics of an ionospheric E-F valley, a new overlapping three- Chapman-layer model is developed to interpret the sounding rocket measurement in the morn- ing (sunrise) on May 7, 2011 at the Hainan low latitude ionospheric observation station (19.5 ^o N, 109.1 ^o E). From our model, the valley width, depth and height are 43.0 km, 62.9% and 121.0 km, re- spectively. From the sounding rocket observation, the valley width, depth and height are 42.2 km, 47.0% and 123.5 km, respectively. The model results are well consistent with the sounding rocket observation. The observed E-F valley at Hainan station is very wide and deep, and rapid devel- opment of the photochemical process in the ionosphere should be the underlying reason.
- Chapman theory,
- overlapping three-layer model,
- ionospheric E-F valley

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