Fernandez-Gomez, Isabel and Goss, Andreas and Schmidt, Michael and Kosary, Mona and Kodikara, Timothy and Forootan, Ehsan and Borries, Claudia (2021) The Impact of Severe Storms on Forecasting the Ionosphere-Thermosphere system through the assimilation of SWARM-derived neutral mass density into physics-based models. vEGU General Assembly 2021, 26-30 April 2021, Virtual. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10552.
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The response of the Ionosphere - Thermosphere (IT) system to severe storm conditions is of great importance to fully understand its coupling mechanisms. The challenge to represent the governing processes of the upper atmosphere depends, to a large extent, on an accurate representation of the true state of the IT system, that we obtain by assimilating relevant measurements into physics-based models. Thermospheric Mass Density (TMD) is the summation of total neutral mass within the atmosphere that is derived from accelerometer measurements of satellite missions such as CHAMP, GOCE, GRACE(-FO) and Swarm. TMD estimates can be assimilated into physics-based models to modify the state of the processes within the IT system. Previous studies have shown that this modification can potentially improve the simulations and predictions of the ionospheric electron density. These differences could also be interpreted as an indicator of the ionosphere-thermosphere interaction. The research presented here, aims to quantify the impact of data satellite based TMD assimilation on numerical model results. Subject of this study is the Coupled Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Plasmasphere electrodynamics (CTIPe) physics-based model in combination with the recently developed Thermosphere-Ionosphere Data Assimilation (TIDA) scheme. TMD estimates from the ESA’s Swarm mission are assimilated in CTIPe-TIDA during the 16 to the 20 of March 2015. This period was characterized by a strong geomagnetic storm that triggered significant changes in the IT system, the so-called St. Patrick day storm 2015. To assess the changes in the IT system during storm conditions due to data assimilation, the model results from assimilating SWARM mass density normalized to the altitude of 400 km are compared to independent thermospheric estimates like GRACE-TMDS. In order to evaluate the impact of the data assimilation on the ionosphere, the corresponding output of electron density is compared to high-quality electron density estimates derived from data-driven model of the DGFI-TUM.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/142259/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title: | The Impact of Severe Storms on Forecasting the Ionosphere-Thermosphere system through the assimilation of SWARM-derived neutral mass density into physics-based models | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: | 26 April 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Open Access: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI : | 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords: | Thermosphere-Ionosphere, Data Assimilation, Geomagnetic storm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Title: | vEGU General Assembly 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Location: | Virtual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Dates: | 26-30 April 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Organizer: | EGU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Space | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | Earth Observation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Raumfahrt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | R EO - Earth Observation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | R - Solar-Terrestrial Physics SO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location: | Neustrelitz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics > Solar-Terrestrial Coupling Processes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Fernandez Gomez, PhD. Isabel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 19 May 2021 14:08 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2021 08:28 |
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