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Present and future
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Joachim Feltens Attila Komjathy Stefan Schaer
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Alberto García-Rigo, Pawel Wielgosz
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Introduction
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IGS IONO WG activities
Current performance of IGS global TEC maps
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Updates and future plans
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IntroductionInternational GNSS Service - IGSG
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IGS directly manages ~400 permanent GNSS stations
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observing 4-12 satellites at 30 s rate: more than 250,000 STEC observations/hour worldwide, but there is lack of
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stations at some areas (e.g., over the oceans)
IGS IONO WG activities
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The IGS Ionosphere Working groupstarted its activities in June 1998 withthe main goal of a routinelyproducing IGS Global TEC maps.
The IGS ionosphere product is aresult of the combination of TECmaps derived by different AnalysisCenters by using weights
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This is being done now with a latencyof 11 days (final product) and with alatency of less than 24 hours (rapid
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JASONTEC dataThis has been done under the
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Determining VTEC in a global network: main problem: lack of data - South and Oceans
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stage of the global maps computation (each 2 hours). This requires an optimum
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Lack of data over the equatorial Africa and Atlantic, and in part over equatorial and southern Pacific, hamper the detection of the equatorial anomalies (June 13, 2004).
Example of IGS Final GIM: 2010-141 DOYTEC map
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Units: 0.1 TECUs
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1 START OF TEC MAP 2004 4 27 0 0 0 EPOCH OF CURRENT MAP87.5-180.0 180.0 5.0 450.0 LAT/LON1/LON2/DLON/H
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Overall validation of VTEC maps during more than 10 years of IGS Iono WG operations
Example of comparison of IGS vs JASON: 2003-347
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Evolution of Global Electron Content during more than 10years of IGS final VTEC maps
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Current updatesCurrent updates and future plans of IGS IWGand future plans of IGS IWG
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- Higher temporal resolution < 1 hour (asap)
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- since October 2009 UPC and ESA have provide predicted maps
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- The old procedures have been rewritten (perl) and currently running in parallel
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-Cooperation with International Reference Ionosphere (IRI)
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- Cooperation with National Central University (Taiwan) on application of COSMIC occultation data
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Comparison of IRI Global TEC maps with IGS final GIMs
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Summary of Summary of IonoIono WG activitiesWG activitiesG
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evolution during the next years, sensitive to both new user needs and scientific achievements.
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