OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 22, issue 08, article # 5
Afraimovich E. L., Edemskii I. K., Voeykov S. V., Yasyukevich Yu. V., Zhivet'ev I. V. Travelling wave packets generated at high altitude by solar terminator. // Optika Atmosfery i Okeana. 2009. V. 22. No. 08. P. 753-759 [in Russian].Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
For the first time morphology of the new type of mid-latitude mid-scale traveling ionosphere disturbances - traveling wave packets (TWP) - is presented by using of total electron content (TEC) measurements from global net of GPS-receivers for a long period from 1998 to 2007. Total amount of the registered TWP exceeds 275 000. In the time context TWP is narrow-band TEC oscillations with duration about an hour and with period about 10-20 min. TWP is seen in general about 3 hours after morning solar terminator moving, when temporal derivatives of the TEC have reached maximum.
Keywords:
solar terminator; total electron content; traveling wave packets; GPS