Cornelius Csar Jude H. Salinas, Dong L. Wu, Liying Qian
{"title":"Quantifying Geomagnetic Activity's Contribution to the Global E-Region Electron Density's Day-To-Day Variability Using Spire Radio Occultation Observations","authors":"Cornelius Csar Jude H. Salinas, Dong L. Wu, Liying Qian","doi":"10.1029/2024GL112874","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL112874","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the unprecedented sampling of the Spire Radio Occultation (RO) data set, this paper statistically estimates geomagnetic dependencies of the global E-region Electron Density's (Ne) day-to-day variability. To assesses how much Spire RO-observed variabilities are consistent with known Physics, comparison is made with the Specified Dynamics–Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Ionosphere/Thermosphere eXtension (SD-WACCM-X), a first principles Physics-based model. Results show that the largest geomagnetic dependency on Spire and SD-WACCM-X E-region Ne occurs at night over the auroral latitudes with coefficients of determination at around 49% and 80%, respectively. Their regression coefficients are both between +10%/Kp index to +16%/Kp index. On the other hand, Spire and SD-WACCM-X substantially disagree on the geomagnetic dependencies during day-time. These results suggest that Spire RO's observations of E-region Ne geomagnetic dependencies may only be substantially explained by known physics at night and not during the day.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL112874","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143076907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}