The ionospheric equivalent slab thickness: a review supported by a global climatological study over two solar cycles

A Pignalberi, M Pietrella, M Pezzopane, B Nava… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
The ionospheric equivalent slab thickness (τ) is a parameter characterizing both the
distribution of the plasma in the ionosphere and the shape of the corresponding vertical …

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 …

The ionosphere response to severe geomagnetic storm in March 2015 on the base of the data from Eurasian high-middle latitudes ionosonde chain

BG Shpynev, NA Zolotukhina, NM Polekh… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the paper we study the ionosphere response to the March 2015 severe geomagnetic
storm according to Eurasian high-middle latitude ionosonde chain. On the basis of the …

On some features characterizing the plasmasphere–magnetosphere–ionosphere system during the geomagnetic storm of 27 May 2017

M Pezzopane, A Del Corpo, M Piersanti… - Earth, Planets and …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents how the magnetosphere–plasmasphere–ionosphere system was
affected as a whole during the geomagnetic storm peaking on 27 May 2017. The …

The ESA Swarm mission to help ionospheric modeling: A new NeQuick topside formulation for mid-latitude regions

M Pezzopane, A Pignalberi - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The ionospheric topside representation made by the NeQuick model is improved by
correcting the H 0 parameter used by the model to calculate the topside scale height. The …

[PDF][PDF] Realistic Ionosphere: Real-time ionosonde service for ISWI

IA Galkin, BW Reinisch, D Bilitza - SunGe, 2018 - newserver.stil.bas.bg
Ionosondes have remained the main provider of continuous “ground-truth” observations of
the subpeak ionospheric plasma density, available for assimilation in weather models with …

Ionospheric response modeling under eclipse conditions: Evaluation of 14 December 2020, total solar eclipse prediction over the South American sector

MA Bravo, MG Molina, M Martínez-Ledesma… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this work, we evaluate the SUPIM-INPE model prediction of the 14 December 2020, total
solar eclipse over the South American continent. We compare the predictions with data from …

Comparison between manual scaling and Autoscala automatic scaling applied to Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory ionograms

CF Enell, A Kozlovsky, T Turunen, T Ulich… - … , Methods and Data …, 2016 - gi.copernicus.org
This paper presents a comparison between standard ionospheric parameters manually and
automatically scaled from ionograms recorded at the high-latitude Sodankylä Geophysical …

Modeling the lower part of the topside ionospheric vertical electron density profile over the European region by means of Swarm satellites data and IRI UP method

A Pignalberi, M Pezzopane, R Rizzi - Space Weather, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An empirical method to model the lower part of the ionospheric topside region from the F 2
layer peak height to about 500–600 km of altitude over the European region is proposed …

A computational tool for ionosonde CADI's ionogram analysis

VG Pillat, LNF Guimarães, PR Fagundes… - Computers & …, 2013 - Elsevier
The purpose of this work is to present a new computational tool for ionogram generated with
a Canadian Advanced Digital Ionosonde (CADI). This new tool uses the fuzzy relation …