Preliminary Analysis of Ionospheric Scintillations Over Guangzhou Region of China

Ionospheric scintillation is a kind of rapid variation resulting from ionospheric irregularities. The scintillations may cause problems such as signal power fading, phase cycle slips, receiver loss of lock, etc., and degrade the quality of satellite navigation systems. Being concerned about these effects, ionospheric scintillations observed at Guangzhou station (23º8' N, 113º17' E) during April to September, 2007 and January to September, 2008 are analyzed in this paper. The results show that there are more ionospheric scintillations over Guangzhou region during geomagnetic quiet and low solar activity periods. The scintillations with S4>0.2 have high and stable occurrence rate in summer, and show no obvious daily variation. Most of them are weak scintillations, i.e., 0.2