Optical investigation of mesopause using OH meinel band and OI 557.7 nm nightglow at low latitude station, Kolhapur, India

Parihar, Navin

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dc.contributor.author	Parihar, Navin
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-08T11:09:48Z
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-12T09:12:29Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-08T11:09:48Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-12T09:12:29Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	PhD Thesis, IIG, p.196, 2009.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/217
dc.description	A thesis submitted to the University of Mumbai for the Ph.D.(Science) degree in physics under the guidance of Prof. G.K. Mukherjee.	en_US
dc.description	Short summary : The radio signals are affected by space weather. The ionosphere imposes the most detrimental effects on the radio signal passing through it. Dispersive nature of the ionosphere and use of two frequencies in GPS facilitate estimation of ionospheric TEC which is an important parameter in the study of L-Band communication though the ionosphere. Rate of TEC (ROT) from GPS can illustrate the features of the ionospheric scintillations. Highly disturbed ionosphere can cause cycle slips in GPS data. Very good correlation is found between the TEC derived from IRI-95 model and GPS using developed software. It is concluded from the present analysis that our TEC estimation procedure may underestimate actual TEC by less than 10 TECU. The magnitude of underestimation mainly depends on the plasmaspheric electron content. It should be noted that these errors are mainly caused by the two assumptions; one is the thin-shell model assumption and the other is the homogeneity of vertical TEC in the area covered with a GPS receiver It is also evident from the results that the IRI model derived TEC values are higher than GPS TEC values in the order of few TECUs, which could be due to longer propagation path of GPS signals in the ionosphere. The satellite trajectory can give sufficient information about ionospheric conditions in space and time precisely. The GPS TEC determination software presented in this chapter can be used to process other stations data, which would be useful in mapping the distribution of ionospheric TEC over low latitude region such as India.
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai	en_US
dc.subject	Optical investigation	en_US
dc.subject	low latitude station	en_US
dc.subject	OH meinel band	en_US
dc.subject	Kolhapur	en_US
dc.subject	PhD Thesis	en_US
dc.title	Optical investigation of mesopause using OH meinel band and OI 557.7 nm nightglow at low latitude station, Kolhapur, India	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.identifier.accession	008598