Ionospheric Effect on the GNSS Radio Occultation Climate Data Record

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Ionospheric Effect on the GNSS Radio Occultation Climate Data Record C. Rocken, S. Sokolovskiy, B. Schreiner, D. Hunt UCAR / COSMIC Boulder, CO

Radio occultation data have to be corrected for the ionospheric delay to obtain profiles of the neutral atmosphere Radio Occultation Height range where ionospheric bias errors can be significant

Ionospheric corrections are done using bending angles at two GPS frequencies based on the known ionospheric dispersion (phase advance at GPS frequencies f is ~ 1/f2 )

We can observe this Bias We estimate the systematic bias by computing the “mean of the iono-free bending angle minus neutral bending angle (from climatology) in the 60-80 km height bin”. We compare this quantity “smean” for daytime vs. nighttime soundings. COSMIC Days 0-120, 2007 -20 < Lat. < 20 DAY (11<LT<15) smean= -1.19 e-7 rad NIGHT (2<LT<6) smean=-0.37e-7 rad We can observe the day vs. night bias change. Thus we should be able to correct for it.

The bias is related to the ionospheric activity and thus can have a long-term periodicity with the 11-year solar cycle CHANGE OF 10.7 CM FLUX WITH SOLAR CYCLE

Relationship of F10.7 / Bending Bias/ Temperature BA Bias WORST CASE CHANGE IN DAYTIME BENDING ANGLE BIAS IN 6 YEARS CAN BE UP to 0.3 microrad !

Ionosphere-induced RO Temperature Error (optimization 20 km above given heights) BA change due to 11-year solar cycle (daytime) BA residual after correction (day-time) BA change residual w/o correction (night-time) Residual BA error 3 E-7 rad 5 E-8 rad 5 E-9 rad 20km 0.1 K (0.045 %) 0.02 K (0.01%) 0.002 K (0.0006 %) 30 km 0.5 K (0.2 %) 0.09 K (0.04 %) 0.01 K (0.004 %) 40 km 2.1 K (0.8 %) 0.35 K (0.15 %) 0.035 K (0.015 %)

Bias in ionospheric free bending angle for example ionospheric conditions Higher electron density causes larger biases ! The average BA correction observed 60-80 km is NOT constant with height

Estimation of NmF2 for Solar Max and Solar Min (using UCAR Electron Density Profiles from CHAMP)

Estimating the Bending Angle Bias Correction (for solar max 2002 and solar min 2007) Average correction for 2002 ~0.12 and for 2007 ~0.02 microrad

Bending Angle Bias and Correction Average NmF2 Bending angle Bias correction 2007 (solar min) correction 2002 (solar max) The correction removes much (but not all) of the bending angle bias

“L1-L2” Bending Angle for Three Height Ranges

Observed Bending Angle Bias for Different Height Ranges Increasing Bias with decreasing height indicates influence of neutral atmospheric tides in stratosphere / mesosphere

Conclusions Residual ionospheric bias can be significant for in the neutral atmosphere > 20 km and should be corrected in the RO bending angle / refractivity / temperature climate record This bias can be computed and corrected for by ray-tracing through the ionosphere (or potentially by a regression on “L1-L2 bending”) Correction does not remove all bias - remaining bias is believed to be caused by neutral atmospheric tides - another reason for the importance of sampling the full diurnal cycle RO can be used to study these tides in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere