The swarm Langmuir probe ion drift, density and effective mass (SLIDEM) product

Abstract

Key points A new data product for Swarm along-track ion drift velocity, density and effective mass has been derived The addition of faceplate current to ion admittance enables a refinement to Swarm ion density The estimations have been validated against a variety of independent measurements and empirical models

Keywords

• Plasma density
• Ionospheric composition
• Ionospheric convection
• Langmuir probe
• Ionosphere
• Space weather