Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2024

Total Root Electron Content: A New Metric for the Ionosphere Below Low Earth Orbiting Satellites

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Abstract Powerful lightning strikes generate broadband electromagnetic signals. At Extremely Low Frequencies (ELF), the signal partly leaks into the ionosphere and produces whistlers that can be detected by satellites. Indeed, the satellites of the European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm Earth Explorer mission can detect those signals during 250 Hz burst‐mode acquisition campaigns of their Absolute Scalar Magnetometers (ASM). The dispersion of these whistlers depends on their propagation path and the distribution of ionization in the ionosphere crossed along that path. In this paper, we introduce a technique to derive a new measure of ionosphere electron content, the Total square‐Root Electron Content (TREC), using the arrival times of two frequencies of the whistler signal. We validate this approach by using data from ionosondes and from in situ measurements of the electron density at Swarm location. This technique brings new opportunities for sounding the ionosphere in regions poorly observed by other techniques.

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hal-04669919 , version 1 (09-08-2024)

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M. Jenner, P. Coïsson, G. Hulot, D. Buresova, V. Truhlik, et al.. Total Root Electron Content: A New Metric for the Ionosphere Below Low Earth Orbiting Satellites. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, 51 (15), ⟨10.1029/2024GL110559⟩. ⟨hal-04669919⟩
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