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Hladczuk, N.A. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Kodikara, T. (author), Siemes, C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)
Uncertainties in radiation pressure modelling play a significant role in the thermospheric density and crosswind observations derived from the GRACE-FO accelerometer, especially during low solar activity. Under such conditions, the radiation pressure acceleration matches the magnitude of the aerodynamic acceleration along the track and...
journal article 2024
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Park, Jaeheung (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Siemes, C. (author)
We statistically investigate fluctuation amplitudes (normalized to the background values) of dayside low-/mid-latitude upper-thermospheric mass density as observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE-Follow-On (GRACE-FO) spacecraft at ∼500 km altitude between 2002 and 2022. There are three new findings in our...
journal article 2023
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Sarris, Theodore E. (author), Tourgaidis, Stelios (author), Pirnaris, Panagiotis (author), Baloukidis, Dimitris (author), Papadakis, Konstantinos (author), Doornbos, Eelco (author), Siemes, C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author)
Daedalus MASE (Mission Assessment through Simulation Exercise) is an open-source package of scientific analysis tools aimed at research in the Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere (LTI). It was created with the purpose to assess the performance and demonstrate closure of the mission objectives of Daedalus, a mission concept targeting to perform in...
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Mehta, Piyush M. (author), Paul, Smriti N. (author), Crisp, Nicholas H. (author), Sheridan, Philip L. (author), Siemes, C. (author), March, G. (author), Bruinsma, Sean (author)
Satellite drag modeling remains the largest source of uncertainty affecting space operations in low Earth orbit. The uncertainty stems from inaccurate models for mass density and drag coefficient. Drag coefficient modeling also impacts scientific knowledge on the physics and dynamics of the upper atmosphere through the estimation of high...
journal article 2022
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Bruinsma, Sean (author), Siemes, C. (author), Emmert, John T. (author), Mlynczak, Martin G. (author)
The quality and distribution in time and space of available atmospheric observations are crucial for the accuracy of semi-empirical thermosphere models. However, datasets can be inconsistent, and their qualities and resolutions are often unequal. The main thermospheric density datasets of this century are briefly described and then compared...
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Siemes, C. (author), Maddox, Stephen (author), Carraz, Olivier (author), Cross, Trevor (author), George, Steven (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Kiss-Toth, Marton (author), Pastena, Massimiliano (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)
Cold Atom technology has undergone rapid development in recent years and has been demonstrated in space in the form of cold atom scientific experiments and technology demonstrators, but has so far not been used as the fundamental sensor technology in a science mission. The European Space Agency therefore funded a 7-month project to define the...
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March, G. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Siemes, C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Doornbos, Eelco N. (author), Pilinski, Marcin (author)
The satellite acceleration data from the CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE, and Swarm missions provide detailed information on the thermosphere density over the last two decades. Recent work on reducing errors in modelling the spacecraft geometry has greatly reduced scale differences between the thermosphere data sets from these missions. However, residual...
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Jiang, Guoying (author), Xiong, Chao (author), Stolle, Claudia (author), Xu, Jiyao (author), Yuan, Wei (author), Makela, Jonathan J. (author), Harding, Brian J. (author), Kerr, Robert B. (author), March, G. (author), Siemes, C. (author)
The re-estimates of thermospheric winds from the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) accelerometer measurements were released in April 2019. In this study, we compared the new-released GOCE crosswind (cross-track wind) data with the horizontal winds measured by four Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPIs) located at...
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March, G. (author)
The German CHAMP, US/German GRACE, and European Space Agency (ESA) GOCE and Swarm Earth Explorer satellites have provided a data set of accelerometer observations allowing the derivation of thermospheric density and wind products for a period spanning more than 15 years. With the advent of highly accurate satellite accelerometer measurements,...
doctoral thesis 2020
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van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author), Doornbos, Eelco (author), Iorfida, E. (author), March, G. (author), Siemes, C. (author), Montenbruck, Oliver (author)
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 mission. Using a precise orbit determination approach, non-gravitational and aerodynamic-only accelerations are estimated from the high-quality Swarm GPS data. The GPS...
journal article 2020
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Visser, T. (author)
The decay of satellite orbits has been used extensively to obtain thermospheric density measurements. With the introduction of accelerometers in spacecraft, the spatial resolution of these data could be increased. At the same time, the direction of the measured acceleration provides a measure for the direction of the incoming flow, and therefore...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Claes, Jochem (author)
The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) region has been attractive to many space agencies and organisations because of its ease of access and the ideal opportunity for remote sensing. Due to the low altitudes, a satellite's orbital state is highly affected by the atmospheric drag force acting on the satellite's body. The largest variation in this drag force...
master thesis 2019
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Visser, T. (author), March, G. (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), de Visser, C.C. (author), Visser, P (author)
Thermospheric wind measurements obtained from linear non-gravitational accelerations of the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite show discrepancies when compared to ground-based measurements. In this paper the cross-wind is derived from both the linear and the angular accelerations using a newly developed...
journal article 2019
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Visser, T. (author), March, G. (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), de Visser, C.C. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author)
Recently, the horizontal and vertical cross wind at 225- to 295-km altitude were derived from linear acceleration measurements of the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite. The vertical component of these wind data is compared to wind data derived from the mass spectrometers of the Atmosphere Explorer C and E and...
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Weimer, D. R. (author), Mlynczak, M. G. (author), Emmert, J. T. (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), Sutton, E.H. (author), Hunt, L. A. (author)
This paper presents measurements of the amplitudes and timings of the combined, annual, and semiannual variations of thermospheric neutral density, and a comparison of these density variations with measurements of the infrared emissions from carbon dioxide and nitric oxide in the thermosphere. The density values were obtained from...
journal article 2018
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Dhadly, Manbharat S. (author), Emmert, John T. (author), Drob, Douglas P. (author), Conde, Mark G. (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), Shepherd, Gordon (author), Makela, Jonathan (author), Wu, Qian (author), Nieciejewski, Richard J. (author), Ridley, Aaron J. (author)
This study is focused on improving the poorly understood seasonal dependence of northern high-latitude F region thermospheric winds under active geomagnetic conditions. The gaps in our understanding of the dynamic high-latitude thermosphere are largely due to the sparseness of thermospheric wind measurements. With current observational...
journal article 2018
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Astafyeva, E (author), Zakharenkova, I (author), Huba, J. D. (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), van den IJssel, J.A.A. (author)
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 intensities arrived at Earth. The first IS was registered at 16:45 UT on 21 June and caused ~50 nT increase in the SYM-H index. The second IS arrived at 5:45...
journal article 2017
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Sheng, Cheng (author), Lu, Gang (author), Solomon, Stanley C. (author), Wang, Wenbin (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), Hunt, Linda A. (author), Mlynczak, Martin G. (author)
Thermospheric temperature and density recovery during the 5 April 2010 geomagnetic storm has been investigated in this study. Neutral density recovery as revealed by Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM) simulations was slower than observations from GOCE, CHAMP, and GRACE satellites, suggesting that the...
journal article 2017
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Dhadly, Manbharat (author), Emmert, John (author), Drob, Douglas (author), Conde, Mark (author), Doornbos, E.N. (author), Shepherd, Gordon (author), Makela, Jonathan (author), Wu, Qian (author), Niciejewski, Rick (author), Ridley, Aaron (author)
This paper investigates the large-scale seasonal dependence of geomagnetically quiet time, northern high-latitude F region thermospheric winds by combining extensive observations from eight ground-based (optical remote sensing) and three space-based (optical remote sensing and in situ) instruments. To provide a comprehensive picture of the...
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Belt, P. (author)
The retrieval of vertical winds by using acceleration data of satellites has never been done before and therefore the results will be unique. Two different methods can be developed for the retrieval of these winds. The first one is a two-dimensional approach and the second one uses the three-dimensional space. From the results for the vertical...
master thesis 2016
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