Title :
Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory (GIRO): Status and prospective
Author :
Galkin, Ivan A. ; Reinisch, Bodo W.
Author_Institution :
Center for Atmos. Res., Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
Abstract :
The Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory (GIRO), http://giro.uml.edu, acquires and disseminates HF ionospheric sounding data from 64 Digisonde locations in 27 countries. GIRO publishes its 30+ million record holdings over the Internet, provides an interactive read/write environment to experts of data interpretation, and forwards real-time data for measurement assimilation and radio propagation and space weather forecast. Of importance to the ionospheric community are the long-term data holdings of manually validated electron density profiles for modeling purposes, studies of the autoscaling uncertainty, and validation of alternative measurement techniques. Real-time GIRO feeds will be used to build an assimilative International Reference Ionosphere model.
Keywords :
Internet; electron density; geophysics computing; information retrieval systems; interactive systems; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; ionospheric techniques; public information systems; radiowave propagation; solar-terrestrial relationships; Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory; HF ionospheric sounding data; Internet; autoscaling uncertainty; data interpretation; digisonde location; interactive read-write environment; international reference ionosphere model; ionospheric community; long term data holding; manually validated electron density profile; measurement assimilation; radiopropagation data; real time data; space weather forecast; Doppler shift; Hafnium; Heating; Ionosphere; Observatories; Plasmas; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5117-3
DOI :
10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050896
