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 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 …

From the Sun to Earth: Effects of the 25 August 2018 geomagnetic storm

M Piersanti, P De Michelis, D Del Moro… - Annales …, 2020 - angeo.copernicus.org
On 25 August 2018 the interplanetary counterpart of the 20 August 2018 coronal mass
ejection (CME) hit Earth, giving rise to a strong G3 geomagnetic storm. We present a …

On the analytical description of the topside ionosphere by NeQuick: Modeling the scale height through COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 selected data

A Pignalberi, M Pezzopane… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The analytical description of the topside ionosphere included in the NeQuick model is
studied in detail. First, the modeled scale height behavior is analyzed at infinity and for the …

Ionosphere variability I: Advances in observational, monitoring and detection capabilities

I Tsagouri, A Belehaki, DR Themens… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper aims to review recent advances regarding the observational and monitoring
capabilities of the ionization conditions in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The analysis spans …

[HTML][HTML] Swarm Langmuir probes' data quality validation and future improvements

F Catapano, S Buchert, E Qamili… - … , Methods and Data …, 2022 - gi.copernicus.org
Abstract Swarm is the European Space Agency (ESA)'s first Earth observation constellation
mission, which was launched in 2013 to study the geomagnetic field and its temporal …

Inter-calibration and statistical validation of topside ionosphere electron density observations made by cses-01 mission

A Pignalberi, M Pezzopane, I Coco, M Piersanti… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01) provides in situ electron density (N
e) observations through Langmuir probes (LPs) in the topside ionosphere since February …

Formation of ionospheric irregularities over Southeast Asia during the 2015 St. Patrick's Day storm

L Spogli, C Cesaroni, D Di Mauro… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the geospace response to the 2015 St. Patrick's Day storm leveraging on
instruments spread over Southeast Asia (SEA), covering a wide longitudinal sector of the …

On the development of a method for updating an empirical climatological ionospheric model by means of assimilated vTEC measurements from a GNSS receiver …

A Pignalberi, JB Habarulema, M Pezzopane… - Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a procedure for updating the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model
by means of assimilated vertical total electron content (vTEC) measurements from a Global …

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 …