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The accuracy of ionospheric models is limited due to the simplified model structures. Complicated spatiotemporal variations in total electron content (TEC) biases between GNSS and international reference ionosphere (IRI) suggest a robust strategy to optimally combine GNSS and IRI TEC for high-precision modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel ionospheric data assimilation method, which is a local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF), to construct an ionospheric model over Yunnan in southwestern China. We used the LETKF method to assimilate the ionospheric TEC extracted from GNSS observations in Yunnan into the IRI-2016 model. The experimental results indicate that the ionospheric data assimilation has a more pronounced improvement effect on the IRI empirical model during periods of geomagnetic quiet than during periods of geomagnetic disturbance. On quiet magnetic days, the skill score (SKS) of the assimilation is 0.60 and the root mean square error (RMSE) values before and after assimilation are 5.08 TECU and 2.02 TECU, respectively. The correlation coefficient after assimilation increases from 0.94 to 0.99. On magnetic storm days, the SKS of the assimilation is 0.42 and the RMSE values before and after assimilation are 5.99 TECU and 3.46 TECU, respectively. The correlation coefficient after assimilation increases from 0.98 to 0.99. The results suggest that the LETKF algorithm can be considered an effective method for ionospheric data assimilation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15143547","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,14]],"date-time":"2023-07-14T08:40:06Z","timestamp":1689324006000},"page":"3547","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Assimilating GNSS TEC with an LETKF over Yunnan, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1292-6746","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jun","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China"},{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"},{"name":"School of Transportation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8098-1029","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shimeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6167-408X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dengpan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Transportation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]},{"given":"Xuequn","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"788","DOI":"10.1016\/j.asr.2004.12.076","article-title":"The ionosphere, radio navigation, and global navigation satellite systems","volume":"35","author":"Kintner","year":"2005","journal-title":"Adv. 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