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

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050896

Filename

6050896