Effective solar indices for ionospheric modeling: a review and a proposal for a real-time regional IRI

A Pignalberi, M Pezzopane, R Rizzi, I Galkin - Surveys in geophysics, 2018 - Springer
The first part of this paper reviews methods using effective solar indices to update a
background ionospheric model focusing on those employing the Kriging method to perform …

Assimilation of GIRO data into a real-time IRI

IA Galkin, BW Reinisch, X Huang, D Bilitza - Radio Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly accurate and detailed global 3-D specification of the Earth's space plasma
environment is required to further understand its intricate organization and behavior. For a …

Progress in space weather modeling in an operational environment

I Tsagouri, A Belehaki, N Bergeot, C Cid… - Journal of Space …, 2013 - swsc-journal.org
This paper aims at providing an overview of latest advances in space weather modeling in
an operational environment in Europe, including both the introduction of new models and …

[HTML][HTML] Solar activity impact on the Earth's upper atmosphere

I Kutiev, I Tsagouri, L Perrone, D Pancheva… - Journal of Space …, 2013 - swsc-journal.org
The paper describes results of the studies devoted to the solar activity impact on the Earth's
upper atmosphere and ionosphere, conducted within the frame of COST ES0803 Action …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of the capabilities and applicability of ionospheric perturbation indices provided in Europe

C Borries, V Wilken, KS Jacobsen… - Advances in Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
Perturbations in the ionosphere are of great interest not only for scientific research, but also
for applications using transionospheric radiosignals (eg GNSS applications and HF …

Assimilation of autoscaled data and regional and local ionospheric models as input sources for real-time 3-D International Reference Ionosphere modeling

M Pezzopane, M Pietrella, A Pignatelli, B Zolesi… - Radio …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes how the joint utilization of autoscaled data such as the F 2 peak critical
frequency fo F 2, the propagation factor M (3000) F 2, and the electron density profile coming …

Testing the IONORT-ISP system: A comparison between synthesized and measured oblique ionograms

A Settimi, M Pezzopane, M Pietrella, C Bianchi… - Radio …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The three-dimensional (3-D) electron density representation of the ionosphere computed by
the assimilative IRI-SIRMUP-P (ISP) model was tested using IONORT (IONOspheric Ray …

Oblique-incidence ionospheric soundings over Central Europe and their application for testing now casting and long term prediction models

M Pietrella, L Perrone, G Fontana, V Romano… - Advances in space …, 2009 - Elsevier
After a first oblique-incidence ionospheric sounding campaign over Central Europe
performed during the period 2003–2004 over the radio links between Inskip (UK, 53.5° N …

[HTML][HTML] The European Ionosonde Service: nowcasting and forecasting ionospheric conditions over Europe for the ESA Space Situational Awareness services

A Belehaki, I Tsagouri, I Kutiev, P Marinov, B Zolesi… - 2015 - swsc-journal.org
The Earth's ionosphere is a magnetoionic medium imbedded in a background neutral
atmosphere, exhibiting very interesting refractive properties, including anisotropy …

The simplified ionospheric regional model (SIRM) for HF prediction: Basic theory, its evolution and applications

M Pietrella, M Pezzopane, B Zolesi, LR Cander… - Surveys in …, 2020 - Springer
This paper is a final review of the Simplified Ionospheric Regional Model (SIRM) developed
as a prototype in the early 1990s and improved in the following years. By means of an …