• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.239-256
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• 2023

지구 전리권은 고층대기의 일부가 이온화되어 전파에 영향을 주는 플라즈마 상태로 존재하는 영역으로 통신과 관련하여 실생활에 직접적으로 영향을 주어 오랜 기간 연구되어온 분야이다. 고도에 따라 전자밀도를 이루는 주된 이온에 따라 D-층, E-층, F-층으로 구분되며, 전자 밀도에 비해 중성대기 밀도가 매우 커서 그 영향을 고려한 플라즈마로 기술되어야 한다. 또한 태양에서 시작되어 지표면에 이르는 영역까지 전리권 외부의 영향이 직접적으로 반영되는 영역으로 복잡하고 다양한 영역의 연구가 연관되는 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 지구 고층대기가 이온화되어 전리권을 형성하는 과정을 설명하고 중·저위도 전리권의 특성에 대해 소개하였다. 또한 현재까지 전리권과 관련하여 국내 연구자들이 참여한 연구를 소개하고 향후 전리권 연구 분야의 교류 활성화에 활용되기를 기대한다.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2011년도 한국우주과학회보 제20권1호
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• pp.26.3-27
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• 2011

Formation of a steep plasma density gradient in the middle-latitude ionosphere during geomagnetic storms and the latitudinal migration of its location depending on the storm phase are suggested to be associated with the ionospheric signature of the plasmapause. We test this idea by using the satellite and ground observation data during the 11 April 2001 storm. The locations of the steep plasma density gradient identified by TOPEX/Poseidon (2001 LT) and DMSP (1800 and 2130 LT) satellites coincide with the ionospheric footprints of the plasmapause identified by the IMAGE satellite. This observation may support the dependence of the middle-latitude plasma density gradient location on the plasmapause motion, but does not explain why the steep density gradient whose morphology is largely different from the morphology of the middle-latitude ionization trough during quiet period is formed in association with the plasmapause. The ionospheric disturbances in the total electron content (TEC) maps shows that the steep TEC gradient is formed at the boundary of the positive ionospheric storm in low-middle latitudes and the negative ionospheric storm in middle-high latitudes. We interpret that the thermospheric neutral composition disturbance in the dayside is confined within the middle-high latitude ionospheric convection zone. The neutral composition latitudes and, therefore, the locations of the steep plasma density gradient coincide with the footprints of the plasmapause. The TEC maps show that the appearance of the steep plasma density gradient in the pre-midnight sector during the recovery phase is related to the co-rotation of the gradient that is created during the main phase.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.191-193
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• 2006

The ionospheric strom evolution process was monitored during the 18 August 2003 magnetic strom over China, through inversion of the ionospheric electron density from GPS observations. The temporal and spatial variations of the ionosphere were analysed as a time series of ionospheric electron density profiles. Results show that the main ionospheric effects of the storm over China under consideration are: the positive storm phase effect usually happens in the low latitudinal ionospheric; the negative storm phase effect occurs in the middle latitude, and the equatorial anomaly structure can be found as well.