View abstract

Shagimuratov Irk

Institute:
WD IZMIRAN.
Kaliningrad, Russia

STRUCTURE OF LARGE-SCALE TIDS OBSERVED DURING 11 OCTOBER 2008 STORM

Authors: 1 Shagimuratov I.I., 1 Cherniak Iu.V., 2 Krankovski A., 1 Karpov I.V., 1 WD IZMIRAN, Kaliningrad, Russia, 2 UWM/GRL, Olsztyn, Poland
Poster presentation

During geomagnetic disturbance of 11 October 2008 the unusual day-time positive effect was observed in TEC variations over Europe. Duration of TEC enhancement was of several hours. The short-term surge was also observed at the background of the positive enhancement. This surge was associated with large-scale travelling ionospheric disturbance (TID). Horizontal structure of the TID was analyzed by using of the detailed TEC maps created on the simultaneous GPS observations of EPN. Dynamics of the ionospheric disturbance was ascertained using TEC maps with temporal resolution of 5 min. The striking surge of TEC enhancement was occurred near 12:30UT, its amplitude slowly decreased towards to equator. TID propagated from north to south with speed of about 450 m/s. Vertical structure was investigated on the base of measurements provided by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC satellite constellation. Enhancement of electron density was observed at all heights, increase in F2 peak region reached the factor of ~2.9.
Ionosphere, geomagnetic storm, GPS, TID

All abstracts in one page