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Total electron content

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Formulation
References

Total electron content (or TEC) is an important descriptive quantity for the ionosphere of the Earth. TEC is the total number of electrons integrated between two points, along a tube of one meter squared cross section, i.e., the electron columnar number density. It is often reported in multiples of the so-called TEC unit, defined as TECU=10¹⁶el/m².^[1]

TEC is significant in determining the scintillation and group and phase delays of a radio wave through a medium. Ionospheric TEC is characterized by observing carrier phase delays of received radio signals transmitted from satellites located above the ionosphere, often using Global Positioning System satellites. TEC is strongly affected by solar activity.

Formulation

The TEC is path-dependent. By definition, it can be calculated by integrating along the path ds through the ionosphere with the location-dependent electron density n_e(s):

TEC =

The vertical TEC (VTEC) is determined by integration of the electron density on a perpendicular to the ground standing route, the slant TEC (STEC) is obtained by integrating over any straight path.

To first order, the ionospheric radio effect is proportional to TEC and inversely proportional to the radio frequency f. The ionospheric phase delay reads:^[2]{{rp|eq. (9.41)}}

while the ionospheric group delay has the same magnitude but opposite sign:

The proportionality constant κ reads:^[2]{{rp|eq.(9.21),(9.20),(9.19),(9.14)}}^[3]

where q, m_e, r_e are the electron charge, mass, and radius, respectively; c is the vacuum speed of light and ϵ₀ is the vacuum permittivity. The value of the constant is approximately κ ≈ 40.308193 m³·s⁻²;^[4]^[5] the units can be expressed equivalently as m·m²·Hz² to highlight the cancellation involved in yielding delays τ in meters, given f in Hz and TEC in m⁻².

References

1. ^{{cite book|title=Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice|date=2001|publisher=Springer-Verlag|location=New York|isbn=978-3-211-83534-0|author=B. Hofmann-Wellenhof|author2=H. Lichtenegger|author3=J. Collins|last-author-amp=yes}}
2. ^¹{{citation| title= IERS Technical Note No.36| chapter=9| contribution-url=ftp://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/chapter9/icc9.pdf| title-link=IERS}}
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=9X5gy_mDamsC&pg=PA360&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wxRxUpWWHbXfsATz7oHwAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false], eq.(25.5)
4. ^[https://www.google.com/search?q=(electron%20charge)^2%20/%20(8*pi^2%20*%20electron%20mass%20*%20permittivity%20of%20free%20space)]
5. ^[https://www.google.com/search?q=(speed%20of%20light)^2%20*%202.8179403267e-15%20m%20/%20(2*pi)]

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