Using tweek atmospherics to measure the response of the low-middle latitude D-region ionosphere to a magnetic storm

Details Using tweek atmospherics to measure the response of the low-middle latitude D-region ionosphere to a magnetic storm Using tweek atmospherics to measure the response of the low-middle latitude D-region ionosphere to a magnetic storm

Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006jastp..68..697o&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 68, Issue 6, p. 697-709.

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Tweek atmospherics are pulse signals from ELF/VLF electromagnetic waves caused by lightning discharges; these signals have characteristic cut-off frequencies due to long-distance propagation by the Earth ionosphere waveguide mode. We developed a method of estimating tweek reflection heights (equivalent electron densities) in the low-middle latitude D-region ionosphere by accurate measurement of their first-order mode cut-off frequency (˜1.8 kHz). This research is the first to show reflection-height measurements of the D-region ionosphere's response to the great geomagnetic storm in October 2000 using tweek atmospherics observations. We found transient lowering/rising in the small bay Dst-variation and rising near the maximum depression of the major bay Dst-variation. Comparing this response in tweek reflection heights with the intensities of 40 kHz radio-wave signals, electron density profiles from the IRI-2001 model and measured by MF radars, and the ionospheric F-region parameter (h′F) from ionosonde data, we determined two cases where the lowering/rising of the D-region was coupled with vertical motion of the F-region and one where it was not. Based on simultaneous total electron content (TEC) perturbation data, we suggest the following possible mechanisms for these two results: E×B vertical plasma drift due to ionospheric electric fields, and the propagation of large-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (LSTIDs) from the auroral to low-latitude ionosphere, respectively.

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