Assessment of the Impact of FORMOSAT‐7/COSMIC‐2 GNSS RO Observations on Midlatitude and Low‐Latitude Ionosphere Specification: Observing System Simulation Experiments Using Ensemble Square Root Filter Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

The Formosa Satellite-7/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2) Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation (RO) payload canprovide global observations of slant total electron content (sTEC) with an unprecedentedly high spatial temporal resolution. Recently, a new ionospheric data assimilation system, the Community Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) Ionosphere, is constructed with the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration GSI Ensemble Square Root Filter and the Global Ionosphere Plasmasphere and the Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamic General Circulation Model. The paper demonstrates the capability of the GSI Ionosphere to improve the ionospheric speci fication and make a quantitative assessment of the impact of FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 RO data on the ionospheric observing system simulation experiments