The Response of Mid-Latitude Ionospheric TEC to Geomagnetic Storms and Solar Flares

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsa21b0353h&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SA21B-0353

Physics

6934 Ionospheric Propagation (2487), 6964 Radio Wave Propagation, 2400 Ionosphere, 2443 Midlatitude Ionosphere

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The effects of geomagnetic storms and solar flares on the ionosphere are manifested as large magnitude sudden fluctuations in the Total Electron Content (TEC). In this study, the broadband VHF signal (30-100MHz) data from the Los Alamos Portable Pulser (LAPP) received by the FORTE (Fast Onboard Recording of Transient Events) satellite during the period of 1997-2002 are used to investigate the mean TEC variation response to geomagnetic storm. A total of 14 geomagnetic storms are selected where FORTE-LAPP data are available to derive average TECs during extended storm-time and non-storm time for a given storm. The variations in the ionospheric TECs at Los Alamos, New Mexico are investigated for the 14 selected geomagnetic storms. In most cases (12 out of 14), we see overall enhancements in TEC as a result of geomagnetic storm impact at Los Alamos. The relative enhancements in TEC at Los Alamos due to a geomagnetic storm can reach as high as 3-fold of the normal TEC values. The overall absolute enhancements in TEC at Los Alamos are up to about 30 TECU. The magnitude of TEC enhancements is diversified over all storm categories without a clean-cut relationship between the storm intensity and the TEC enhancement. The mean TEC variation response to geomagnetic storm can be complicated when several consecutive storms occurred in a row and a net TEC reduction may be seen. Data of continuous GPS TEC measurements are collected at a 1-minute time resolution during July 2004 when 5 X-class solar flares occurred from two Allen Osborne Associates ICS-4000Z GPS receivers mounted at the Physics Building at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In detecting effects of solar flares on the ionospheric TEC, we apply appropriate filtering to remove the linear trend of TEC and a coherent processing of TEC variations simultaneously for all the visible GPS satellites in a given time interval. The responses of ionospheric TEC at minute time scale to these powerful impulsive solar flares are investigated. The onset time of the ionospheric response and the magnitude of the TEC fluctuations and its time derivative are examined along with their relationships with the solar flux characteristics, duration of the flare and location of the flare on the Sun, X-ray emission variations during the flares, and local time of the flare occurrence.

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