Study on Ionospheric TEC Effect during the Magnetic Storm on August 5^th,2011

Abstract:

Using GPS observations, this article studied the global TEC’s effect and its variation characters during the magnetic storm on August 5^th, 2011. Results show that after sudden commencement and deep main phase of the magnetic storm, there are strong positive ionospheric TEC disturbances in the area along middle and low latitude with local time of 12:00 at noon. Besides, compared with TEC reference value, the maximum increase values are respectively 21.26 TECU and 25.29 TECU. TEC’s abnormal decline appeared in some area of high latitude at mid night on the northern semi-sphere. The analysis results reflect that the ionospheric disturbances are dependent on the local time. Moreover, observations on the BRMU GPS station show that the rate of TEC (ROT) rose and fell quickly, and its standard deviation ROTI index increased from less than 0.5 TECU/min to lager than 1.5 TECU/min, which meant that TEC temporal and spatial gradient had become larger and larger during the storm. The global ROTI map reflects the strong irregularity of the ionosphere density structure in the high-latitude area with higher time resolution in case of storm sudden commencement, and the maximum value rose up to 6 TECU/min. Then, the ionospheric irregularity appeared in wide area of the globe after noon.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 577)
• Pages: 1193-1197
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.577.1193
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Shu Hui Li*, Jun Huan Peng, Shu Qing Wang, Yun Peng
• Keywords: Global Positioning System (GPS), Ionospheric Disturbance, Magnetic Storm, Total Electron Content (TEC)

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