Use of RO-derived electron density profiles to assess the NeQuick model topside

NeQuick 2 [1] is an ionosphere electron density model developed at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy with the collaboration of the University of Graz, Austria. It is a quickrun model particularly suitable for trans-ionospheric propagation applications that has been designed to represent the climatological behavior of the ionosphere. To provide "weather-like" specification of the 3-D electron density, different data ingestion techniques have been developed on the basis of NeQuick adaptation to GNSS-derived Total Electron Content (TEC) data and ionosonde measured peak parameters values [2].