Agreements between ground-based and satellite-based observations

On the basis of records from meridian chains of magnetometers and the KRM inversion method, we have deduced a number of ionospheric quantities, including the distribution of the electric potential, field-aligned currents, the ionospheric currents and its equatorial counterpart and the relationship between the AE index and the cross-polar cap potential. In this paper, we examine the results thus obtained in the light of compatible data which are deduced from satellite observations. It is shown that both results agree fairly well, proving the validity of the polar ionospheric parameters deduced from both the ground-based and satellite-based data. Several important implications of the results are pointed out.