Variability of ionospheric plasma: results from the ESA swarm mission

AG Wood, L Alfonsi, LBN Clausen, Y **, L Spogli… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Swarm is the first European Space Agency (ESA) constellation mission for Earth
Observation. Three identical Swarm satellites were launched into near-polar orbits on 22 …

Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence II: Review of passive measurement setups, protocols, and their application at the leaf to canopy level

H Aasen, S Van Wittenberghe, N Sabater Medina… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Imaging and non-imaging spectroscopy employed in the field and from aircraft is frequently
used to assess biochemical, structural, and functional plant traits, as well as their dynamics …

Evaluation of empirical atmospheric models using Swarm-C satellite data

L Yin, L Wang, W Zheng, L Ge, J Tian, Y Liu, B Yang… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Swarm-C satellite, a new instrument for atmospheric study, has been the focus of many
studies to evaluate its usage and accuracy. This paper takes the Swarm-C satellite as a …

Atmospheric density inversion based on Swarm-C satellite accelerometer

L Yin, L Wang, J Tian, Z Yin, M Liu, W Zheng - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
We used the Swarm-C accelerometer data to invert the orbital atmospheric density in this
study. First, the Swarm-C satellite mission data were obtained from the ESA's public data …

Thermosphere densities derived from Swarm GPS observations

J van den IJssel, E Doornbos, E Iorfida, G March… - Advances in Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
After the detection of many anomalies in the Swarm accelerometer data, an alternative
method has been developed to determine thermospheric densities for the three-satellite …

New thermosphere neutral mass density and crosswind datasets from CHAMP, GRACE, and GRACE-FO

C Siemes, C Borries, S Bruinsma… - Journal of Space …, 2023 - swsc-journal.org
We present new neutral mass density and crosswind observations for the CHAMP, GRACE,
and GRACE-FO missions, filling the last gaps in our database of accelerometer-derived …

The operational and research DTM-2020 thermosphere models

S Bruinsma, C Boniface - Journal of Space Weather and Space …, 2021 - swsc-journal.org
Aims: The semi-empirical Drag Temperature Models (DTM) predict the Earth's
thermosphere's temperature, density, and composition, especially for orbit computation …

High-fidelity geometry models for improving the consistency of CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE and Swarm thermospheric density data sets

G March, EN Doornbos, P Visser - Advances in Space Research, 2019 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, accelerometers on board of the CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE and
Swarm satellites have provided high-resolution thermosphere density data to improve our …

Reduced dynamic and kinematic precise orbit determination for the Swarm mission from 4 years of GPS tracking

O Montenbruck, S Hackel, J van den Ijssel, D Arnold - GPS solutions, 2018 - Springer
Precise science orbits for the first 4 years of the Swarm mission have been generated from
onboard GPS measurements in a systematic reprocessing using refined models and …

Global ionospheric and thermospheric effects of the June 2015 geomagnetic disturbances: Multi‐instrumental observations and modeling

E Astafyeva, I Zakharenkova, JD Huba… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
By using data from multiple instruments, we investigate ionospheric/thermospheric behavior
during the period from 21 to 23 June 2015, when three interplanetary shocks (IS) of different …