What's IONISE?

 

Under the support of NSFC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Meridian Project, we are currently developing an Ionospheric Observation Network for Irregularity and Scintillation in East/Southeast Asia (IONISE), which mainly includes three chains of GNSS TEC/scintillation receivers (which can track Beidou geostationary satellite signals) along 110°E, 23°N, and 40°N respectively, multi-static portable digital ionosondes (which can be operated to obtain Doppler ionograms with a time interval less than 1 min for vertical and oblique observations), and VHF radars (beam steering and multi-baseline imaging observations). We welcome various forms of cooperation e.g., data sharing/exchange, providing sites for instrument installation.


The scientific objectives of the IONISE are to 1) trace the occurrence and movements of ionospheric irregularities producing GNSS loss-of-lock and scintillations, 2) capture ionospheric disturbances of various scales by natural sources e.g., low atmosphere activity, geomagnetic activity and earthquake, and 3) reveal extremely large gradients of background ionosphere over southern China and adjacent regions.

Recent publications using IONISE database

Sun W., Ajith K.K., Li G., Li Y., Zhao X. et al. (2022). Unseasonal super ionospheric plasma bubble and scintillations seeded by the 2022 Tonga Volcano Eruption related perturbations. J. Space Weather Space Clim. 12, 25. https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2022024

Sun, W., Li, G., Le, H., Chen, Y., Hu, L., Yang, S., et al. (2022). Daytime ionospheric large-scale plasma density depletion structures detected at low latitudes under relatively quiet geomagnetic conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA030033. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030033

Zhao, X., Li, G., Xie, H., Hu, L., Sun, W., Yang, S., et al. (2021). The prediction of day-to-day occurrence of low latitude ionospheric strong scintillation using gradient boosting algorithm. Space Weather, 19, e2021SW002884. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021SW002884

Sun, W., Hu, L., Yang, Y., Zhao, X., Yang, S., Xie, H., et al. (2021). Occurrence of regional strong Es irregularities and corresponding scintillations characterized using a high-temporal-resolution GNSS network. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126(11): e2021JA029460. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029460

Sun, W., Zhao, X., Hu, L., Yang, S., Xie, H., Chang, S., et al. (2021). Morphological characteristics of thousand-kilometer-scale Es structures over China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028712. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028712

Hu, L., Lei, J., Sun, W., Zhao, X., Wu, B., Xie, H., et al. (2021). Latitudinal variations of daytime periodic ionospheric disturbances from Beidou GEO TEC observations over China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028809. doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028809

Xie, H., Yang, S., Zhao, X., Hu, L., Sun, W., Wu, Z., … Li, G. (2020). Unexpected high occurrence of daytime F region backscatter plume structures over low latitude Sanya and their possible origin. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2020gl090517

Zhao, X., Xie, H., Hu, L., Sun, W., Hao, X., Ning, B., … Li, G. (2020). Climatology of equatorial and low-latitude F region kilometer-scale irregularities over the meridian circle around 120°E/60°W. GPS Solutions, 25(1). doi:10.1007/s10291-020-01054-2

Li, Guozhu; Ning, Baiqi; Otsuka, Yuichi; Abdu, Mangalathayil Ali; Abadi, Prayitno; Liu, Zhizhao; Spogli, Luca; Wan, Weixing (2020). Challenges to Equatorial Plasma Bubble and Ionospheric Scintillation Short-Term Forecasting and Future Aspects in East and Southeast Asia. Surveys in Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s10712-020-09613-5

Sun, W., Wu, B., Wu, Z., Hu, L., Zhao, X., Zheng, J., Xie, H., Yang, S., Ning, B., Li, G. (2020). IONISE: An Ionospheric Observational Network for Irregularity and Scintillation in East and Southeast Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028055.

Hu, L., Zhao, X., Sun, W., Wu, Z., Zheng, J., Xie, H., et al. (2020). Statistical characteristics and correlation of low‐latitude F region bottom‐type irregularity layers and plasma plumes over Sanya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA027855. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027855.

Sun, W., Ning, B., Hu, L., Yue, X., Zhao, X., Lan, J., et al. (2020). The evolution of complex Es observed by multi instruments over low‐latitude China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027656. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027656

Liu, L., Ding, Z., Zhang, R., Chen, Y., Le, H., Zhang, H., et al. (2020). A Case Study of the Enhancements in Ionospheric Electron Density and Its Longitudinal Gradient at Chinese Low Latitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, e2019JA027751. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027751.

Xie, H., Li, G., Zhao, X., Ding, F., Yan, C., Yang, G., & Ning, B. (2020). Coupling between E region quasi-periodic echoes and F region medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances at low latitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027720.

Liu, L., Ding, Z., Le, H., Chen, Y., Zhang, H., Wu, J., et al (2020), New features of the enhancements in electron density at low latitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027539, doi:10.1029/2019JA027539.

Wang, Y., Li, G., Ning, B., Yang, S., Sun, W., & Yu, Y. (2019). All‐Sky Interferometric Meteor Radar Observations of Zonal Structure and Drifts of Low‐Latitude Ionospheric E Region Irregularities. Earth and Space Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000884.

Li, G., Ning, B., Zhao, X., Sun, W., Hu, L., Xie, H., et al. (2019). Low latitude ionospheric TEC oscillations associated with periodic changes in IMF Bz polarity. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084428.

Huang, F., Otsuka, Y., Lei, J., Luan, X., Dou, X., & Li, G. (2019). Daytime periodic wave‐like structures in the ionosphere observed at low latitudes over the Asian‐Australian sector using total electron content from Beidou geostationary satellites. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 2312– 2322. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026443.

Meng, X., Fang, H., Li, G., Weng, L., & Wang, S. (2019). Observations of evolution‐type band‐like structures of F region irregularities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 1426–1443. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026091.

Liu, K., G. Li, B. Ning (2019), Possible evidence for small-scale wave seeding of equatorial plasma bubbles, Advances in Space Research, 63, 11, 3612-3620, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.02.025.