Experimental Evidence on the Dependence of the Standard GPS Phase Scintillation Index on the Ionospheric Plasma Drift Around Noon Sector of the Polar Ionosphere

This work in China is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (grants 41574138, 41274149, and 41604139), the young top‐notch talent program of the “National High‐level personnel of special support program (Ten Thousand Talent Program),” and the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (grant JQ201412) and the Chinese meridian project. All the GPS data used in this work were provided by the Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN); the official website is http://chain.physics.unb.ca/chain/. Infrastructure funding for CHAIN was provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF). CHAIN and its operation are conducted in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Science funding is provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). J. Moen is supported by the Research Council of Norway grant 230996. M. Lester acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/K001000/1 and NERC grant NE/K011766/1. We greatly appreciate the Physics department of University of New Brunswick for establishing and running CHAIN and sharing scintillation data through database http://chain.physics.unb.ca/chain/pages/gps/). We also sincerely acknowledge Virginia Tech. for providing SuperDARN radar data through website (http://vt.superdarn.org/tiki‐index.php). SuperDARN is a collection of radars funded by national scientific funding agencies of Australia, Canada, China, France, Japan, South Africa, UK, and United States. The Kapuskasing HF radar is operating by Virginia Tech., and the Saskatoon HF radar is maintaining by University of Saskatchewan. The authors also wish to thank the International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI‐BJ) for supporting and hosting the meeting of the International Team on “Multiple‐instrument observations and simulations of the dynamical processes associated with polar cap patches/aurora and their associated scintillations,” durin