Free download of our thermosphere density and wind data, satellite geometry and aerodynamic models for the CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE and Swarm missions. Please cite our references when you use our data or models.
Update on April 13, 2022: Uploaded accelerometer-derived Swarm C density data covering November and December 2021, and January 2022.
Update on April 3, 2022: Uploaded accelerometer-derived Swarm C density data covering September and October 2021.
In case the link to the data does not open in your browser, please copy the link and open it in your FTP client (user anonymous, any password is accepted).
If you use the data on this webpage, please cite our publications.
Accelerometer-derived density data
G. March, J. van den IJssel, C. Siemes, P. Visser, E. Doornbos, M. Pilinski (2021) Gas-surface interactions modelling influence on satellite aerodynamics and thermosphere density. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 11: 54. https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2021035
C. Siemes, J. de Teixeira da Encarnação, E. N. Doornbos, J. van den IJssel, J. Kraus, R. Pereštý, L. Grunwaldt, G. Apelbaum, J. Flury and P. E. Holmdahl Olsen (2016) Swarm accelerometer data processing from raw accelerations to thermospheric neutral densities. Earth, Planets and Space, 68: 92. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-016-0474-5
E. N. Doornbos (2012) Thermosphere density and wind determination from satellite dynamics. Dissertation, Springer Nature, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-642-25129-0 (free PDF version)
Satellite geometry and aerodynamic models
G. March, E. N. Doornbos and P. N. M. A. Visser (2019) High-fidelity geometry models for improving the consistency of CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE and Swarm thermospheric density data sets. Advances in Space Research 63: 213–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.07.009
G. March, E. N. Doornbos and P. N. M. A. Visser (2019) CHAMP and GOCE thermospheric wind characterization with improved gas-surface interactions modelling. Advances in Space Research 64: 1225–1242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.06.023
GNSS-derived density data
J. van den IJssel, E. Doornbos, E. Iorfida, G. March, C. Siemes, O. Montenbruck (2020) Thermosphere densities derived from Swarm GPS observations. Advances in Space Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.01.004
P. Visser and J. van den IJssel J (2016) Orbit determination and estimation of non-gravitational accelerations for the GOCE reentry phase. Advances in Space Research 58: 1840–1853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2016.07.013
The original data was obtained from the following sources
CHAMP data: GFZ's Information System and Data Center
GOCE and Swarm data: ESA's Earth Online webpage
GRACE data: NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
Accelerometer and density data processing
GNSS data processing
GNSS data processing
Aerodynamic and radiation pressure modelling
Accelerometer, density and wind data processing
Geometry and aerodynamic modelling
Density data processing
Wind data processing
This page was started with Mobirise website theme