Al-Behadili, H.A.H. and Warrington, Michael and Stocker, A. J. and Siddle, D. R. and Honary, Farideh and Rogers, Neil Christopher and Zaalov, Nikolay and Boteler, D.H. and Danskin, D. W. (2017) Developments in an HF Nowcasting Model for Trans-Polar Airline Routes. In: General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2017 XXXIInd :. IEEE, CAN. ISBN 9781509044696
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Abstract
HF communications can be difficult in the polar regions since they are strongly influenced by space weather events. Airline communications within the polar regions rely on HF communications and improved nowcasting and forecasting techniques in support of this are now required. Previous work has demonstrated that ray tracing through a realistic, historical ionosphere provides signal coverage in good agreement with measurements. This paper presents an approach to providing a real-time ionospheric model by assimilating TEC measurements and validates it against observations from ionosondes.