The International Reference Ionosphere model: A review and description of an ionospheric benchmark

D Bilitza, M Pezzopane, V Truhlik… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper is a review of the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) project and model. IRI
is recognized as the official standard for the Earth's ionosphere by the International …

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 …

An Updating of the IONORT Tool to Perform a High-Frequency Ionospheric Ray Tracing

M Pietrella, M Pezzopane, A Pignatelli, A Pignalberi… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the main updates characterizing the new version of IONORT
(IONOsperic Ray Tracing), a software tool developed at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a real-time description of the ionosphere: A comparison between international reference ionosphere (IRI) and IRI real-time assimilative mapping …

A Pignalberi, M Pietrella, M Pezzopane - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper focuses on a detailed comparison, based on the F2-layer peak characteristics fo
F2 and hm F2, between the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI), which is a …

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 …

Tomography of the ionospheric electron density with geostatistical inversion

D Minkwitz, KG van den Boogaart… - Annales …, 2015 - angeo.copernicus.org
In relation to satellite applications like global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and
remote sensing, the electron density distribution of the ionosphere has significant influence …

Ionospheric response under the influence of the solar eclipse occurred on 20 March 2015: Importance of autoscaled data and their assimilation for obtaining a reliable …

M Pietrella, M Pezzopane, A Settimi - Journal of atmospheric and solar …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper wants to highlight how the availability of measurements autoscaled at some
reference ionospheric stations, and their assimilation by ionospheric models, was of crucial …

Using IRI and GSM TIP model results as environment for HF radio wave propagation model during the geomagnetic storm occurred on September 26–29, 2011

DS Kotova, MV Klimenko, VV Klimenko… - Advances in Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the geomagnetic storm on September 26–29, 2011. We compare the
calculation results obtained using the Global Self-consistent Model of the Thermosphere …

Improvements and validation of the IRI UP method under moderate, strong, and severe geomagnetic storms

A Pignalberi, M Pietrella, M Pezzopane… - Earth, Planets and Space, 2018 - Springer
This work describes several important improvements made to the International Reference
Ionosphere UPdate (IRI UP) method, and a careful validation of its performances under …

Simultaneous multiplicative column-normalized method (SMART) for 3-D ionosphere tomography in comparison to other algebraic methods

T Gerzen, D Minkwitz - Annales Geophysicae, 2016 - angeo.copernicus.org
The accuracy and availability of satellite-based applications like GNSS positioning and
remote sensing crucially depends on the knowledge of the ionospheric electron density …